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unusual facts about Situationist International


St Anne's Limehouse

Across the road is the former Sailors' Mission, where Situationist International held its conference in 1960.


Anti-systemic library

The idea of an anti-systemic library has been developed in conjunction with Danish Situationist Asger Jorn's notion of Triolectics and the work of the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.

Bob Black

The Abolition of Work and Other Essays (1986), draws upon some ideas of the Situationist International, the utopian socialists Charles Fourier and William Morris, anarchists such as Paul Goodman, and anthropologists such as Richard Borshay Lee and Marshall Sahlins.

Bruno Bauer

The Trumpet, written by Bauer and published anonymously, was of inspiration to Gianfranco Sanguinetti, for his 1975 pamphlet Veritable Report on the Last Chances to Save Capitalism in Italy, a situationist prank which caused him to leave Italy under the force of political pressure.

Cosio di Arroscia

In 1957 the French Avant-Garde Groupe Situationist International was founded in Cosio di Arroscia by former members of two other avant-garde groupes, the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus (Asger Jorn, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio a.o.) and the Lettrist International (Guy Debord a.o.).

Hybrid Theory Conferences

The format of the conferences were derived in part from the Situationist International and French Surrealism and differed each year.

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim

Rumney was an English New Realist and one of the founders, along with Guy Debord and Piero Simondo, of the Situationist International.

RE/Search

The first issue had photographs by Ruby Ray and articles on Factrix, The Slits, conspiracies (written by Jay Kinney), Young Marble Giants, Boyd Rice's Non, Cabaret Voltaire, Sun Ra, flashcards, Japan, J. G. Ballard, Julio Cortázar, rhythm & noise, Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Throbbing Gristle, nuclear disaster, Situationism, Octavio Paz, and punk prostitutes.

Society of the Spectacle LLC

Its name was inspired by the book and film of the same name The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle) written by Situationist and Marxist theorist, Guy Debord.

Subvertising

Subvertising can be considered a successor to Détournement, a technique developed in the 1950s by the French Letterist International and later used by the better known Situationist International.


see also

Michèle Bernstein

Bernstein and Debord visited Cosio di Arroscia in July 1957: the Situationist International officially came into being there on July 28.