Situationists

Two Local Chapters in the Spectacle of Decomposition - Chris Shutes

Ret Marut — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:10:31 +0000

Published by Chris Shutes in Berkeley, CA, USA; May 1979.

Preliminaries on councils and councilist organization - René Riesel

daniel — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:30:45 +0000

The state and counter-revolution - Negation

daniel — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:48:15 +0000

They confront the fact that state-capitalism, the state-management of production and society, the rule over society by the class of the state, the bureaucracy, is still almost universally confused with "communism" as Marx defined it, due in part to the conspiracy of silence and distortion which unites the capitalists of both "East" and "West".

How to talk like a Situationist

Steven. — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:31:00 +0000

1. Learn French. No self-respecting situationist would dream of not knowing it.

2. Always use the most obscure language possible. Get lots of big scholarly words from a dictionary and use them often.
Poor: "Things are bad."

Heatwave Magazine - UK, 1960s

Ret Marut — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:34:24 +0000

We group together here 2 texts about the UK Heatwave magazine, which existed for 2 issues in 1966 - and the wider political scene it was a part of, which included its links with the US Industrial Workers of the World and American Surrealists. There then follows a text from issue 1 of Heatwave.

Debord's New Book (review) - by The Red Menace

libcom — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:31:04 +0000

Theses on the Situationist International and Its Time

libcom — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:45:32 +0000

IN A MOMENT of universal history, the Situationist International imposed itself as the thought of the collapse of a world, a downfall that has now begun under our very eyes.

Review: Whatever happened to the Situationists?

libcom — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:42:38 +0000

These historically-determined limits cannot detract from the vitality of many of the SI's contributions, including, amongst others, their critique of the 'militant'.

Public Secrets by Ken Knabb

Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1997.

What is Situationism? A Reader edited by Stewart Home

Edinburgh: AK Press, 1996.