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Situationist International : A Critical Handbook by Gabriel Zacarias (2020, Uk-Trade Paper)
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PublisherPluto Press
ISBN-100745338895
ISBN-139780745338897
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Product Key Features
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSituationist International : a Critical Handbook
Publication Year2020
SubjectHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Art & Politics, Criticism & Theory, History & Theory
TypeTextbook
AuthorGabriel Zacarias
Subject AreaArt, Political Science
FormatUk-Trade Paper
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Reviews"Challenging the prevalent woolly and dehistoricized readings, Frances Stracey advances a powerful and incisive reconstruction of SI practice" - Gail Day, "Frances Stracey was an original and committed interpreter of the Situationist International, who saw their work not just as art history but as contributing to an ongoing challenge to commodified life, down into our own times" - McKenzie Wark, "Stracey does not reduce the Situationist movement to a form of art praxis or media theory. She takes the Situtationist's claim to have developed a modern approach to revolution seriously and focuses on the 'construction of situations' as a practical alternative to the spectacle. She addresses the difficult problem of assessing what parts of the Situationist legacy may still inspire contemporary critical cultural forms" - Anselm Jappe, author of 'Guy Debord', 'It's hard to see how this book could be surpassed in rigor and scope. As its authors carefully unpack the complex manifold of situationism, readers begin to grasp again the political, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural totality of consumer capitalism that the Situationists argued we can leave. This mid-twentieth-century critique and speculation remains an undeniable wonder', 'Philosophy, critical theory, artistic practice, strategies and tactics of social contestation, transnational networks and internecine clashes all came together in the Situationist International. In this volume, new archival resources and a new generation of scholars point the way to a richer, more complete picture of the movement and its place in the 20th and 21st centuries', "Fuelled by her remarkable insights into the work of the image in an image-culture, Frances Stracey offers a ground-breaking and timely account of Situationist 'situations'. Not only does she restore a place for women as radical subjects within the movement but she fearlessly shows us what is at stake in living such a project now" - Briony Fer, Professor of Art History, University College London, Stracey returns the SI to a living tradition of critique and negation in art. It is her work on women in the SI and the debate on gender and class, identity and the universal, though, that defines her investigation of the 'situation'' - Professor John Roberts, author of The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday|9780745338897|
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Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal303.48/40922
Table Of ContentIntroduction: The Situationist International in Critical Perspective - Alastair Hemmens and Gabriel Zacarias PART I: KEY CONTEXTS 1. Debord's Reading of Marx, Lukács and Wittfogel: A Look at the Archives - Anselm Jappe 2. The Unsurpassable: Dada, Surrealism and the Situationist International - Krzysztof Fijalkowski 3. Lettrism - Fabrice Flahutez 4. The Situationists, Hegel and Hegelian Marxism in France - Tom Bunyard 5. The Situationist International and the Rediscovery of the Revolutionary Workers' Movement - Anthony Hayes 6. The Shadow Cast by the Situationist International on May '68 - Anna Trespeuch-Berthelot 7. The Situationists' Anti-colonialism: An Internationalist Perspective - Sophie Dolto and Nedjib Sidi Moussa 8. Gender and Sexuality in the Situationist International - Ruth Baumeister 9. Revolutionary Romanticism in the Twentieth Century: Surrealists and Situationists - Michael Löwy PART II: KEY CONCEPTS 10. The Spectacle - Alastair Hemmens and Gabriel Zacarias 11. The Constructed Situation - Gabriel Zacarias 12. Unitary Urbanism: Three Psychogeographic Imaginaries - Craig Buckley 13. The Abolition of Alienated Labour - Alastair Hemmens 14. Détournement in Language and the Visual Arts - Gabriel Zacarias 15. The Situationists' Revolution of Everyday Life - Michael E. Gardiner 16. Radical Subjectivity: Considered in its Psychological, Economic, Political, Sexual and, Notably, Philosophical Aspects - Alastair Hemmens 17. The 'Realisation of Philosophy' - Tom Bunyard 18. Recuperation - Patrick Marcolini 19. Internationalism - Bertrand Cochard Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
SynopsisFormed amidst the incendiary violence and political turmoil of the 1960s, beyond the barricades, the Situationist International (SI) remains to this day influential in anti-capitalist cultural, political and philosophical debates. Looking at philosophy, sociology, critical theory, art, architecture and literature, The Situationist International is an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the SI and its thought. Leading thinkers analyse the SI's interdisciplinary challenges, its roots in the artistic avant-garde and the traditional workers' movements, its engagement with the problems of postcolonialism and issues of gender and sexuality. Including contributions from key thinkers, including Anselm Jappe and Michael Lowy, as well as new and upcoming scholars, The Situationist International unpacks the complexity of a group that has come to define radical politics and culture in the postwar period., From its foundation in 1957 to its self-dissolution in 1972, the Situationist International established itself as one of the most radical revolutionary organisations of the twentieth century. This book brings together leading researchers on the SI to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of the group's key concepts and contexts, from its relationship to earlier artistic avant-gardes, romanticism, Hegelianism, the history of the workers' movement and May '68 to the concepts and practices of 'spectacle', 'constructed situations', 'everyday life' and 'détournement'. The volume also considers historically underexamined areas of the SI, including the situation of women in the group and its opposition to colonialism and racism. With contributions from a broad range of thinkers including Anselm Jappe and Michael Löwy, this account takes a fresh look at the complex workings of a group that has come to define radical politics and culture in the post-war period.
LC Classification NumberHN49.R33S538 2020
