#situationist — Public Fediverse posts

On Saturday, June 13th we're excited to host a virtual event with Ian Alan Paul, author of the recently published book "The Reticular Society" (PM Press, 2026). Joined by scholar Andrew Culp, Ian will reflect on the networked reorganization of capitalist society, the diverse ways digital technologies have invaded and imposed their shape upon everyday life, and what forms of revolt might remain possible against the suffocating flows of our online world.

Register for the event and find your copy of "The Reticular Society" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3617-the-networked-colonization-of-everyday-life.html . Can't join the conversation live? Sign up anyway and we'll send you the recording to stream at your convenience.

This event is organized in collaboration with @pmpress as part of their All We Have Is Each Other Speaker Series.

#TechnoFascism #Cybernetics #Situationist #IanAlanPaul #FeministBookstore FirestormCoop (- L)

On Saturday, June 13th we're excited to host a virtual event with Ian Alan Paul, author of the recently published book "The Reticular Society" (PM Press, 2026). Joined by scholar Andrew Culp, Ian will reflect on the networked reorganization of capitalist society, the diverse ways digital technologies have invaded and imposed their shape upon everyday life, and what forms of revolt might remain possible against the suffocating flows of our online world.

Register for the event and find your copy of "The Reticular Society" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3617-the-networked-colonization-of-everyday-life.html . Can't join the conversation live? Sign up anyway and we'll send you the recording to stream at your convenience.

This event is organized in collaboration with @pmpress as part of their All We Have Is Each Other Speaker Series.

#TechnoFascism #Cybernetics #Situationist #IanAlanPaul #FeministBookstore FirestormCoop (- L)

Just realized that the Fluxus movement and the Situationists were contemporary and wondering whether there was any cross-pollination or whether that was a huge missed opportunity. I don't see any cross-references on the Wikipedia pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International

#Fluxus #Situationist

Just realized that the Fluxus movement and the Situationists were contemporary and wondering whether there was any cross-pollination or whether that was a huge missed opportunity. I don't see any cross-references on the Wikipedia pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International

#Fluxus #Situationist

🧠 Análisis Lúcido #9 — just published.

Sir Debord
La Sociedad del Espectáculo no envejeció. Se actualizó.

We took the 'Sir' from Mackinder — the imperial geographer who justified every war — and gave it to who deserves it.

Guy Debord tenía razón. Not as a prophet. As an anatomist.

The spectacular time still steals the only thing no one can take from you — except yourself. Six simultaneous screens. Breaking news from four podiums. And Debord's book under the keyboard at 3am.

El modo vampiro no es enfermedad.
Es soberanía temporal.
Y eso, aunque suene excesivo, es una forma concreta de deserción.

https://desalienacion.org/analisis-lucido-9.html

#AnálisisLúcido #Debord #DigitalSovereignty #DesalienacionDigital #Situationist

It used to be "10,000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire"

I note the recuperation of #situationist language. "You deserve more"

All that is solid turns to vape.

The vaping of society

#vape #uk

"For me, psychogeography is an invaluable and radically different tool that we can engage to help us understand the social and geographical environment in which we live."

https://psychogeographicreview.com/psychogeography-taking-back-the-city/
#psychogeography #Situationist #Map

"For me, psychogeography is an invaluable and radically different tool that we can engage to help us understand the social and geographical environment in which we live."

https://psychogeographicreview.com/psychogeography-taking-back-the-city/
#psychogeography #Situationist #Map

https://blackd.substack.com/p/against-the-aesthetics-of-the-spectacle
#art #situationist

TJ Clark "We’re all tired of apocalypse-speak. Nonetheless, the spectacle still has a few surprises up its sleeve… Trump, the genius of détournement, delights in saying out loud what the “lunatic left” is accused of." https://blackd.substack.com/p/liberal-hypocrisy-under-threat-shock
#Situationist

Reading 'The Revolution of Everyday Life' by #situationist Raoul Vaneigem I came across the following passage:

"""
Insatiable desire for passionate knowledge of one pretty girl after another stems from anxiety and from fear of love, so afraid are we of never encountering anything but objects.
"""
(Donald Nicholson-Smiths translation)

In 1967 bro already foresaw the coming of the #anime #waifu.
BRO KNEW, AND TRIED TO WARN US!

Situationist?

I'm looking for any (academic or non- academic) people or groups investigating or practicing Situationist approaches to geography, cartography and architecture.

If you know anything, please point me in the right direction. Thanks!

#situationist #geography #cartography #maps #architecture #debord #AsgerJorn #psychogéographie #psychogeography #situationiste

Situationist?

I'm looking for any (academic or non- academic) people or groups investigating or practicing Situationist approaches to geography, cartography and architecture.

If you know anything, please point me in the right direction. Thanks!

#situationist #geography #cartography #maps #architecture #debord #AsgerJorn #psychogéographie #psychogeography #situationiste

#PortfolioDay !!!

I'm a British artist living in #Porto.
Theories of #philosophy of #memory inspire my #cyanotype #origami and #stitchwork creations.

Currently working on #Situationist International studies of cities and maps, and philosophy of cultural memory. Would love to collaborate with a #cartographer or #architect ...

Find more of my work here... https://alunkirby.com/

Thank you!

#PortoArt #PortoArtist #Cameraless #cameralessPhotography #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #Sashiko #Debord

90s Alternative and Philosophy now available for pre-order! I’ve got a chapter in there on the spectacle, recuperation, and grunge aesthetics. Should be out in the next few months or so. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/90s-alternative-and-philosophy/ #popculture #philosophy #grunge #90s #situationist #spectacle

"What are the organisational perspectives of life in a society which authentically "reorganises production on the basis of the free and equal association of the producers"? Work would more and more be reduced as an exterior necessity through the automation of production and the socialisation of vital goods, which would finally give complete liberty to the individual."

The Situationist Manifesto, 1960

http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/9

#situationist #SI #liberty #manifestos

@situationist

"What are the organisational perspectives of life in a society which authentically "reorganises production on the basis of the free and equal association of the producers"? Work would more and more be reduced as an exterior necessity through the automation of production and the socialisation of vital goods, which would finally give complete liberty to the individual."

The Situationist Manifesto, 1960

http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/9

#situationist #SI #liberty #manifestos

@situationist

The Alexander Trocchi papers – manuscripts, journals, notebooks, magazines & ephemera, including material relating to the International Situationist movement – are held at Washington University in St Louis

6/6

https://libguides.wustl.edu/c.php?g=1040037&p=7558427

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Trocchi #Situationist

The Alexander Trocchi papers – manuscripts, journals, notebooks, magazines & ephemera, including material relating to the International Situationist movement – are held at Washington University in St Louis

6/6

https://libguides.wustl.edu/c.php?g=1040037&p=7558427

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Trocchi #Situationist

New book from B.P.C. WiseBooks Series No. 5. 'Building For Babylon: Construction, Collectives and Craic' by David and Stuart Wise, co-founder of the English #Situationist 'King Mob'.. Available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. Extract on Substack. #spycops

Art and the Zen of Bronze Moulding; A Secret History of the Newcastle Civic Centre Seahorses
https://blackd.substack.com/.../art-and-the-zen-of-bronze...
#situationist

Consumerism, Control, and the Spectacle: Guy Debord's Critique

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HjHUz2EkKbY&si=7Q6w-KY5V8dPXuTN

#Consumerism #Control, and #TheSpectacle #SpectacleSociety #GuyDebord #Situationist #Election2024 #2024Election #Fascism #MAGA #RealityTV

Consumerism, Control, and the Spectacle: Guy Debord's Critique

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HjHUz2EkKbY&si=7Q6w-KY5V8dPXuTN

#Consumerism #Control, and #TheSpectacle #SpectacleSociety #GuyDebord #Situationist #Election2024 #2024Election #Fascism #MAGA #RealityTV

A #situationist perspective on the last electoral clusterfuck in America https://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/trump.htm

https://blackd.substack.com/p/talk-to-the-anarchists
#anarchism #federation_anarchism_era #UtopianAnarchist #situationist

I en samtid där konsumtion och bildflöden påverkar vår självbild och interaktion med andra människor, tar denna dokumentärfilm sin utgångspunkt i den samtidskritiska och uppmärksammade boken "Skådespelssamhället" från 1967 av den franska filosofen Guy Debord. Filmen undersöker hur våra liv, enligt boken, förvandlas till handelsvaror och hur ytan ofta överträffar verkligheten. Genom visuella och humoristiska inslag dras paralleller till dagens informationssamhälle, med avstamp i populärkulturella referenser. Har representationen och framställningen av oss själva och världen blivit viktigare än de faktiska erfarenheterna? Svensk dokumentär från 2024 av Roxy Farhat och Göran Hugo Olsson.

#SocietyOfSpectacle #Debord #Situationist

https://www.svtplay.se/video/KzVBVYN/spektaklet

#newcastle #situationist
'Someone has yet to point out there is a relationship between Satie’s Vexations, composed in 1893 and Mallarme’s views on music, because there is one, in that instruments in Mallarme take on a life of their own and yet are, like machines, lifeless. This suggests a mechanization of sound has taken place that is no longer able to express a desire for liberation. A perspective such as this begs reinterpretation in the light of Marx’s “fetishism of commodities”.'

"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."

#GuyDebord, 1967

#SI #situationist

"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."

#GuyDebord, 1967

#SI #situationist

@skatterlings

#RIP Jacqueline de Jong

Overlooked member of The Situationist International. I remember her mentioned a few times in Knabb's SI Anthology. An interesting life & post-SI career.

"Self-taught Dutch painter, sculptor, and graphic artist Jacqueline de Jong, known for her inextinguishable commitment to figuration and for founding the landmark periodical the #Situationist Times, died June 29 in Amsterdam following a brief illness."

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jacqueline-de-jong-painter-dead-1234711206/

#Painting #Art

@futurebird
> Refrains of "it's all lies" & "everything is fake" on facebook were one of the most disturbing things

This is not new.

"At a time when people everywhere are being taken in by the lies and distractions presented by the media, we find everyone at the same time defending their cynicism, their self-proclaimed recognition of what is 'really' going on."

The #PleasureTendency, 'The Fatuousness of Cynicism', Leeds, UK, 1987

https://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=30586

#situationist

@futurebird
> Refrains of "it's all lies" & "everything is fake" on facebook were one of the most disturbing things

This is not new.

"At a time when people everywhere are being taken in by the lies and distractions presented by the media, we find everyone at the same time defending their cynicism, their self-proclaimed recognition of what is 'really' going on."

The #PleasureTendency, 'The Fatuousness of Cynicism', Leeds, UK, 1987

https://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=30586

#situationist

Intended as a timeline cleanse:
"Experimental radio often responds to its environment: hijacking commercial radio tropes, appropriating generic formats, infiltrating mainstream radio and, perhaps, everyday life. This tendency could be termed situationist... Radio situationism is a tactical media methodology of decoys and camouflage, offering trojan-horse simulacra that want to take us in."
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/strange-transmissions-the-world-of-experimental-radio-situationism
#radio #situationist

Intended as a timeline cleanse:
"Experimental radio often responds to its environment: hijacking commercial radio tropes, appropriating generic formats, infiltrating mainstream radio and, perhaps, everyday life. This tendency could be termed situationist... Radio situationism is a tactical media methodology of decoys and camouflage, offering trojan-horse simulacra that want to take us in."
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/strange-transmissions-the-world-of-experimental-radio-situationism
#radio #situationist

The morale will continue until the beatings improve.

"Under the paving stones, the beach"

#Situationist #Art #May68 #DirtyCommiePinkoSlogans

Look at this really old school and cool #situationist website! www.nothingness.org/about.html

So yeah, call me opportunistic but I'd rather think like @landley and other folks I know way longer like @stman in being a #situationist.

I install @ubuntu / #Ubuntu LTS on #Desktop and server since that's the least painful option to migrate #TechIlliterates and thus #normies to:

They don't care what #OS / #Browser/ ... they use.

All they want is get online, write an eMail, buy stuff Aperzon/eNay/ShitExpress, watch YouTuke & maybe print a letter if they feel fancy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0&t=584s

Fellow Anarchists, do you consider Council Communism, Situationism, and Autonomism to fall under the Libertarian Communist umbrella?

Don't hesitate to boost if you have anarchists in your followers.

#FediPoll #anarchism #autonomist #councilcommunism #situationist

Fellow Anarchists, do you consider Council Communism, Situationism, and Autonomism to fall under the Libertarian Communist umbrella?

Don't hesitate to boost if you have anarchists in your followers.

#FediPoll #anarchism #autonomist #councilcommunism #situationist

@GarlicBreath this is what Guy Debord wrote about in the Society of the Spectacle.

#situationist

On May 13, 1959, the Italian painter Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio premiered in Paris with an exhibition titled Une caverne de l’anti-matière (A Cavern of Antimatter), at Galerie René Drouin, rue Visconti, anticipating CERN's experiments with anti-matter #antimatter #CERN #Situationist
https://www.transverse-art.com/oeuvre/la-caverne-de-lanti-matiere

Amazing. The "Choking Victim" poster at Mama Tried was done in the style of a #Situationist comic.

Group Mocksim are tasked with solving the problem of Paris’s number one eyesore, the Eifel Tower. 'Form-follows-function’ is crossed with an aesthetic most common in the outer zones of the capital of Europe’s, The ‘United’ Kingdom, namely PEBBLEDASH.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpIYBXqsgmJ/

#architecture #homedesign #homebuild #homestyle #placemaking #towncentrefirst #15minutecities #healthycities #resilience #neighbourhoods #urbandesign #liveability #situationist #formfollowsfunction #finishthejob #eifel

I've been rather fascinated with the #SituationistInternational. Below is a lecture that, I believe, gives a rather good overview on their basic ideas (although a lot more can be said).
#Situationist #GuyDebord #art #ArtHistory #MarxistTheory #ClassStruggle #Spectacle #marxist #socialist #capitalist #Mai68

https://youtu.be/nqRKH3DjfJg

“Real poetry brings back into play all the unsettled debts of history.”

—The Situationist International

#poety #Situationist #SituationistInternational #history

Fresh #Introduction:

I write about music, books, technology, and politics, these days mostly for The Wire and the Los Angeles Review of Books. I was a longtime #editor at the Brooklyn Rail and at Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia. I play #bass guitar in a bunch of groups (ask me). I've been a #radio DJ/producer at @WFMU for years. I'm a #photographer. For a living I'm a software developer on Wall St. I'm a proud anti-authoritarian lefty (#anarchist, #situationist), and deeply interested in #linguistics.

@Mrfunkedude

#Devo remain the best #Punk band of all-time. I shall brook NO debate on this matter. No sirree, bawb.

Also, DEVO were so political people didn't get that they were political. Now, *that's* political.

#Brechtian #Dadaist #Situationist #EthnographicBreachingAsAMusicGenre

@CindySue @bookstodon Yeah. Society of the Spectacle is a trip.

#situationist #guydebord

The Society of the Spectacle was first published in 1967. This quote describes our relationships and behaviour in the context of social media with disturbing prescience:

"The externality of the spectacle in relation to the active man appears in the fact that his own gestures are no longer his but those of another who represents them to him." (from "Society Of The Spectacle" by Guy Debord, translated by Tom Vague)

#spectacle #guydebord #philosophy #bookstodon #situationist