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Guy Debord and the Situationist International : texts and documents

Contributor(s): Series: October bookPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004; © 2002Edition: 1st MIT Press pbk. edDescription: xx, 492 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0262633000
  • 9780262633000
  • 0262134047
  • 9780262134040
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Contents:
Introduction : ideology and the Situationist utopia / Tom McDonough -- The long walk of the Situationist International / Greil Marcus -- The great sleep and its clients (1955) / Guy Debord -- One step back / Guy Debord -- Report on the construction of situations and on the terms of organization and action of the International Situationist Tendency / Guy Debord -- One more try if you want to be Situationists (the SI in and against decomposition) / Guy Debord -- Theses on cultural revolution / Guy Debord.
Contribution to the debate "is surrealism dead or alive?" / Guy Debord -- In praise of Pinot-Gallizio (1958) / Michèle Bernstein -- Comments against urbanism (1961) / Raoul Vaneigem -- The Situationists and the new forms of action in politics or art (1963) / Guy Debord -- Perspectives for a generatrion (1966) / Théo Frey -- Captive words (preface to a Situationist dictionary) (1966) / Mustapha Khayati -- The Situationists and the new forms of action against politics and art (1967) / Réne Viénet -- Asger Jorn's avant-garde archives / Claire Gilman.
Architecture and play / Libero Andreotti -- Situationist space / Tom McDonough -- Lefebvre on the Situationists : an interview / Kristin Ross -- Angels of purity / Vincent Kauffman -- Difference and repetition : on Guy Debord's films / Giorgio Agamben -- Dismantling the spectacle : the cinema of Guy Debord / Thomas Y. Levin -- Spectacle, attention, counter-memory / Jonathan Crary -- Why art can't kill the Situationist International / T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith.
Summary: This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The emphasis is on the SI's engagement with the art and politics of their time (1957-1972).
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"An October book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : ideology and the Situationist utopia / Tom McDonough -- The long walk of the Situationist International / Greil Marcus -- The great sleep and its clients (1955) / Guy Debord -- One step back / Guy Debord -- Report on the construction of situations and on the terms of organization and action of the International Situationist Tendency / Guy Debord -- One more try if you want to be Situationists (the SI in and against decomposition) / Guy Debord -- Theses on cultural revolution / Guy Debord.

Contribution to the debate "is surrealism dead or alive?" / Guy Debord -- In praise of Pinot-Gallizio (1958) / Michèle Bernstein -- Comments against urbanism (1961) / Raoul Vaneigem -- The Situationists and the new forms of action in politics or art (1963) / Guy Debord -- Perspectives for a generatrion (1966) / Théo Frey -- Captive words (preface to a Situationist dictionary) (1966) / Mustapha Khayati -- The Situationists and the new forms of action against politics and art (1967) / Réne Viénet -- Asger Jorn's avant-garde archives / Claire Gilman.

Architecture and play / Libero Andreotti -- Situationist space / Tom McDonough -- Lefebvre on the Situationists : an interview / Kristin Ross -- Angels of purity / Vincent Kauffman -- Difference and repetition : on Guy Debord's films / Giorgio Agamben -- Dismantling the spectacle : the cinema of Guy Debord / Thomas Y. Levin -- Spectacle, attention, counter-memory / Jonathan Crary -- Why art can't kill the Situationist International / T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith.

This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The emphasis is on the SI's engagement with the art and politics of their time (1957-1972).

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