50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International

by Wark, McKenzie

• ISBN13: 9781616891084
• ISBN10: 1616891084
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-28
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr

Summary

From Occupy Wall Street activists and corporate adbusters to online hackers and guerilla street artists, the influence of the Situationist International (SI) is written large across our contemporary cultural landscape. Formed in 1957 as a merger of four European avantgarde groups with backgrounds in Marxism and Lettrism, the SI would over the next decade introduce many key intellectual and artistic concepts to us. In50 Years of Recuperation, critically acclaimed author McKenzie Wark explores how our contemporary understanding of art, politics, and even reality itself has been shaped by these original culture jammers.

Table of Contents

Spectacles of Disintegration	p. 4
Myths of Exemption	p. 6
Recuperation Perfected	p. 8
Experimental Behavior	p. 12
The Dérive Generalized	p. 15
Unitary Urbanism	p. 21
Situationist Architecture	p. 27
Permanent Play	p. 33
The Détournement of Détournament	p. 40
Notes	p. 45
Credits	p. 48
Illustrations	p. 49
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