Situationist

Situationist film makers produced a number of important films, where the only contribution by the situationist film cooperative was the sound-track.

The dérive was a course of preparation, reconnaissance, a means of shaping situationist psychology among urban explorers for the eventuality of the situationist city.

Debord G.E. (1967) : thesis 72. of a degrading reality has been elaborated by many Situationist artists, producing détournements of advertising where instead of a shiny life the crude reality was represented.

Debord's work The Society of the Spectacle (1967) established situationist analysis as Marxist critical theory.

During the early 1980s, English anarchist Larry Law produced the Spectacular Times pocket-books series, which aimed to make Situationist ideas more easily assimilated into the anarchist movement.

For example, Situationist International maintains that free time is illusory and rarely fully "free"; economic and social forces appropriate free time from the individual and sell it back to them as the commodity known as "leisure".

For instance, Asger Jorn never believed in a conception of the Situationist ideas as exclusively artistic and separated from political involvement.

He was at the root and at the core of the Situationist International project, fully sharing the revolutionary intentions with Debord.

In contrast, a situationist perspective on emotion views emotion as the product of an organism investigating its environment, and observing the responses of other organisms.

In the 1960s, the artists and writers associated with the Situationist International were closely associated with Surrealism.

Jorn’s role in the situationist movement (as in COBRA ) was that of a catalyst and team leader.

More recently, writers such as Thomas de Zengotita have echoed Situationist theories regarding the spectacle of contemporary society.

Quotation: In May 1968, the Situationist-inspired Paris riots set off "a chain reaction of refusal" against consumer capitalism.

The experimental direction of situationist activity consisted of setting up temporary environments favorable to the fulfillment of true and authentic human desires in response.

The SI received many offers to sponsor “creations” that would just have a "situationist" label but a diluted political content, that would have brought things back to order and the SI back into the old fold of artistic praxis.

The situationists are obviously partisans of organization—the existence of the situationist organization testifies to that.

The text, "beauty is in the street", is a situationist slogan. citation The Situationists played a preponderant role in the May 1968 uprisings, and to some extent their political perspective and ideas fueled such crisis, Lasn, Kalle (2000) Culture Jam.

The theorists of the Situationist International regarded the current paradigm of work in advanced capitalist society as increasingly absurd.

To overthrow such a system, the Situationist International supported the May '68 revolts, and asked the workers to occupy the factories and to run them with direct democracy, through workers' councils composed by instantly revocable delegates.