Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 11:52:54 +0100
From: Fergal Finnegan <fergalf-AT-meta.dublin.iona.ie>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Situationists.


Hello Andrew,

A good place to start would be Ken Knabb's "S.I Anthology"
which has a broad range of articles from members of the
Situationist International. Guy DeBord's "Society of the Spectacle"
and Raoul Vaneigeim's "The Revolution of Everyday Life" are
central texts to this fractious and interesting group.

Blaggers guides would include Sadie Plant's "The most radical
gesture" (academic), Greil Marcus' "Lipstick Traces" (readable
pop culture history), and (the chancer's chancer) Stewart Home
"Assault on Culture" has a short introduction to the S.I and their
antecedents. 

Jean Barrot, the french ultra leftist, short and polemical "What 
is situationism" is interesting if you have read some of the stuff
already. Henri Lefebvre, the brilliant French Marxist who was 
mentioned last week on the list, is very interesting to read 
alongside situ texts as he has a lot in common with them while
remaining quite seperate from them ( see the "The critique of 
Everyday Life" and "the Production of Space"). Socialisme ou 
Barbarie also influenced DeBord greatly so if you plough through
a lot of this stuff Castoriadis would be worth reading.


http://www.thorn.net/~rose/index.html

is a situ zine but there is also a lot of archive S.I materials and a clear
introduction to the S.I there

http://www.nothingness.org/SI/index.html

is a an extensive archive of Situationist  articles


http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~swilbur/si.html

has some intoductory links and bibliography

By the way thanks to everyone who took part in the
Frankfurt school thread it was one of the better 
on-line discussions I have read in a while....

Anyway, back to work.

Slan,

Fergal

Saoirse agus ainriail





At 10:16 02/10/97, you wrote:
>Kia Ora.
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>Can anyone please recommend books about the Situationist International and
>situationist  theory.
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>Regards 
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>Andrew.
>" Marxism is the Conscious reflection of an unconscious process. "- Leon
>Trotsky.
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