Title & Author:

The Situationist International : a critical handbook / edited by Alastair Hemmens and Gabriel Zacarias.

Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2020.

Description:

vi, 330 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Key Contexts -- 1. Debord's Reading of Marx, Lukács and Wittfogel: A Look at the Archives / Anselm Jappe -- 2. The Unsurpassable: Dada, Surrealism and the Situationist International / Krzysztof Fijalkowski -- 3. Lettrism / Fabrice Flahutez -- 4. The Situationists, Hegel and Hegelian Marxism in France / Tom Bunyard -- 5. The Situationist International and the Rediscovery of the Revolutionary Workers' Movement / Anthony Hayes -- 6. The Shadow Cast by the Situationist International on May '68 / Anna Trespeuch-Berthelot -- 7. The Situationists' Anti-colonialism: An Internationalist Perspective / Sophie Dolto and Nedjib Sidi Moussa -- 8. Gender and Sexuality in the Situationist International / Ruth Baumeister -- 9. Revolutionary Romanticism in the Twentieth Century: Surrealists and Situationists / Michael Löwy -- Part II: Key concepts -- 10. The Spectacle / Alastair Hemmens and Gabriel Zacarias -- 11. The Constructed Situation / Gabriel Zacarias -- 12. Unitary Urbanism: Three Psychogeographic Imaginaries / Craig Buckley -- 13. The Abolition of Alienated Labour / Alastair Hemmens -- 14. Détournement in Language and the Visual Arts / Gabriel Zacarias -- 15. The Situationists' Revolution of Everyday Life / Michael E. Gardiner -- 16. Radical Subjectivity: Considered in its Psychological, Economic, Political, Sexual and, Notably, Philosophical Aspects / Alastair Hemmens -- 17. The 'Realisation of Philosophy' / Tom Bunyard -- 18. Recuperation / Patrick Marcolini -- 19. Internationalism / Bertrand Cochard.

Summary:

Formed amidst the incendiary violence and political turmoil of the 1960s, beyond the barricades, the Situationist International (SI) remains to this day influential in anti-capitalist cultural, political and philosophical debates. Looking at philosophy, sociology, critical theory, art, architecture and literature, The Situationist International is an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the SI and its thought. Leading thinkers analyse the SI's interdisciplinary challenges, its roots in the artistic avant-garde and the traditional workers' movements, its engagement with the problems of postcolonialism and issues of gender and sexuality. Including contributions from key thinkers, including Anselm Jappe and Michael Lowy, as well as new and upcoming scholars, The Situationist International unpacks the complexity of a group that has come to define radical politics and culture in the postwar period.

ISBN:

0745338909 (hardback)
9780745338903 (hardback)
9780745338897 (paperback)
0745338895 (paperback)
(ePub ebook)
9781786805454
(PDF ebook)
9781786805447
(Kindle ebook)
9781786805461

Subject:

Internationale situationniste.
Radicalism.
Art Political aspects.
Radicalisme.
Art Aspect politique.
radicalism.
political art.

Added entries:

Hemmens, Alastair, editor.
Zacarias, Gabriel Ferreira, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308865
Call No.: BIB 254188
Status: Available