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Chapters: Situationist International. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 485. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Class consciousnessClass struggle . CommunismDerive . DetournementGeneral Strike . RecuperationSpectacle . Unitary UrbanismWorkers Council World revolutionThe Situationist International (SI) was a restricted group of international revolutionaries founded in 1957, and which had its peak in its influence on the unprecedented general wildcat strikes of May 1968 in France. With their ideas rooted in Marxism and the 20th century European artistic avant-gardes, they advocated experiences of life being alternative to those admitted by the capitalist order, for the fulfillment of human primitive desires and the pursuing of a superior passional quality. For this purpose they suggested and experimented with the construction of situations, namely the setting up of environments favorable for the fulfillment of such desires. Using methods drawn from the arts, they developed a series of experimental fields of study for the construction of such situations, like unitary urbanism and psychogeography. They fought against the main obstacle on the fulfillment of such superior passional living, identified by them in advanced capitalism. Their theoretical work peaked on the highly influential book The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord. Debord argued in 1967 that spectacular features like mass media and advertising have a central role in an advanced capitalist society, which is to show a fake reality in order to mask the real capitalist degradation of human life. 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 d...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=5752

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Media: Paperback Book, 154 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Books LLC

ISBN-10: 1156433959

ISBN-13: 9781156433959

Dimensions: 9.02 x 6.00 x 1.08 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.56 lbs

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