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Critical texts, translations, documents, and photographs on the work of the Situationist International.This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. The emphasis was on the SI's profound engagement with the art and cultural politics of their time (1957-1972), with a strong argument for their primarily political and activist stance by two former members of the group, T. J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith.Guy Debord and the Situationist International supplements both sections. It reprints important, hard to find essays by Giorgio Agamben, Libero Andreotti, Jonathan Crary, Thomas Y. Levin, Greil Marcus, and Tom McDonough and doubles the number of translations of primary texts, which now encompass a broader and more representative range of the SI's writings on culture and language. In a field still dominated by hagiography, the critical texts were selected for their willingness to confront critically the history and legacy of the SI. They examine the group within the broader framework of the historical and neo-avant-gardes and, beyond that, the postwar world in general. The translations trace the SI's reflections on the legacy of the avant-garde in art and architecture, particularly on the linguistic and spatial significance of montage aesthetics. Many of the translated works are by Guy Debord (1932-1994), the impresario of the SI, especially known for his book The Society of the Spectacle.

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Guy debord,progenitor of the extraordianry Situationist Internationale, was brillaint, autocratic,difficult,syncretic genius who took his own life. He first came to "notieriety" with the Letterist Internationale,the forerunner of the situationists. His greatest known work, still, is THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE, a post-modern,post-marxist analysis of modern society,which in his terms, had gone form a commodity based to spectacle based. Difficult to read, even harder to catorgorize, Debord later wote{20 years later} COMMENTS ON THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE,which further[in his mind] established the spectacle based modern capitalist society]Now This book, gorgeously if expensively produced by MIT Press, places Debord front and center.It Starts with an introductory essay by the volume editor, Tom Mc Donough, which attempts to introduce the cast of characters, sch as they were[are]. Next, a brilliant essay by Greil Marcus, who with his book Lipstick Traces brought the situationists back[for the first time to many] into view. the essays that follow are by Debord[the first 6 are}then one by Michele Bernstein[former memeber,the SI disbanded in 1972]others by the brilliant,poeticlly inclined Raoul Vaneigem[who was proably nearer to Debords intellectual level than many of the others]t j clark,libero anderotti[architecture and play, a suerb essay] among others. The book itself is very well produced,which is nice considering the price.Though incomplete[it is a reprint of the magazine OCTOBER issue on the SI} it helps fill in the missing pieces with this vital thinker and his times. Though not as complete as I would have liked{no Ralph rumney,for example,who has such interesting things to say in his book, THE CONSUL} it is another in the growing interst to the SI.Well doneIntroduction: Ideology and the Situations UtopiaThe Long Walk of the Situationist International 1The Great Sleep and Its Clients (1955) 21One Step Back (1957) 25Report on the Construction of Situations and on the Terms of Organization and Action of the International Situationist Tendency (1957) 29One More Try If You Want to Be Situationists (The SI in and against Decomposition) (1957) 51Theses on Cultural Revolution (1958) 61Contribution to the Debate "Is Surrealism Dead or Alive?" (1958) 67In Praise of Pinot-Gallizio (1958) 69Extracts from Letters to the Situationist International (1958) 75Editorial Notes: Absence and Its Costumers (1958) 79Editorial Notes: The Meaning of Decay in Art (1959) 85A Different City for a Different Life (1959) 95Editorial Notes: Critique of Urbanism (1961) 103Editorial Notes: Once Again, on Decomposition (1961) 115Comments against Urbanism (1961) 119Editorial Notes: Priority Communication (1962) 129Editorial Notes: The Avant-Garde of Presence (1963) 137Editorial Notes: All the King's Men (1963) 153The Situationists and the New Forms of Action in Politics or Art (1963) 159Perspectives for a Generation (1966) 167Captive Words - (Preface to a Situationist Dictionary) (1966) 173The Situationists and the New Forms of Action against Politics and Art (1967) 181The Practice of Theory: Cinema and Revolution (1969) 187Asger Jorn's Avant-Garde Archives 189Architecture and Play 213Situationist Space 241Lefebvre on the Situationists: An Interview 267Angels of Purity 285Difference and Repetition: On Guy Debord's Films 313Dismantling the Spectacle: The Cinema of Guy Debord 321Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory 455Why Art Can't Kill the Situationist International 467Letter and Response 489RELATED TITLES * Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (The Verso Classics Series) by Guy Debord * The Situationist City by Simon Sadler * Situationist International Anthology by Ken Knabb* Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century by Greil Marcus * The Tribe by Jean-Michel Mension, Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator) * May '68 and Its Afterlives by Kristin Ross * Considerations on the Assassination of Gérard Lebovici by Guy Debord, Robert Greene Revolution of Everyday Lifeby Raoul Vaneigem)* Beneath the Paving Stones: Situationists and the Beach, May 1968.

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