Situationist International Anthology - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0939682044 ISBN 13: 9780939682041

Casa editrice: Bureau of Public Secrets, 2007

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Literary Nonfiction. Politics. Critical Theory. Art. In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people's passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by most leftists, they developed an incisive critique of the global spectacle-commodity system and of its "Communist" pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. Since then—although the SI itself was dissolved in 1972—situationist theories and tactics have continued to inspire radical currents all over the world. The SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY, generally recognized as the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English, presents a rich variety of articles, leaflets, graffiti and internal documents, ranging from early experiments in "psychogeography" to lucid analyses of the Watts riot, the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and other crises and upheavals of the sixties. For this new edition the translations have all been fine-tuned and over 100 pages of new material have been added.

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In 1957 a few experimental European groups stemming from the radical tradition of dadaism and surrealism, but seeking to avoid the cooption to which those movements succumbed, came together to form the Situationist International. The name came from their aim of liberating everyday life through the creation of open-ended, participatory ?situations? (as opposed to fixed works of art) ? an aim which naturally ran up against the whole range of material and mental obstacles produced by the present social order. Over the next decade the situationists developed an increasingly incisive critique of the global ?spectacle-commodity system? and of its bureaucratic leftist pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. Since then ? although the SI itself was dissolved in 1972 ? situationist theories and tactics have continued to inspire radical currents in dozens of countries all over the world. The "SI Anthology," generally recognized as the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English, presents a chronological survey of the group's activities and development as reflected in articles from its French journal and in a variety of leaflets, pamphlets, filmscripts and internal documents, ranging from their early experiments in urban ?psychogeography? and cultural subversion to their lucid analyses of the Watts riot, the Vietnam war, the Prague Spring, the Chinese ?Cultural Revolution? and other crises and upheavals of the sixties. A greatly revised, and expanded edition, with over 100 pages of new material.

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• Editore: Bureau of Public Secrets
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0939682044
• ISBN 13: 9780939682041
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 532
• Redattore: Knabb Ken