Theory of the Derive

by Andreotti, Libero; Chetglov, I.; Jorn, A.; Constant

• ISBN13: 9788489698154
• ISBN10: 8489698155
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Table of Contents

Theory of the Derive and other situationist writings on the city	p. 7
Formulary for a new urbanism	p. 14
Introduction to a critique of the urban geography	p. 18
Theory of the derive	p. 22
Two accounts of the Derive	p. 28
On the current value of the functionalist idea	p. 33
Notes on the formation of an Imaginist Bauhaus	p. 35
Opening Speech of the First World Congress of Free Artists	p. 37
Psychogeographical game of the week	p. 42
Exercise in psychogeography	p. 42
Slum construction	p. 43
Next planet	p. 43
Skyscrapers by the roots	p. 44
Destruction of Rue Sauvage	p. 45
Daubers	p. 46
Derive by the mile	p. 47
Take the first street	p. 48
Waiting for the churches to close/Psychogeography and politics	p. 48
Ariadne, unemployed	p. 48
The most unshakeable of colonies	p. 49
The general line	p. 50
Summary 1954	p. 50
Architecture for life	p. 51
Square des Missions Etrangeres	p. 52
Architecture and play	p. 53
Letrist contribution - Letter to the Editor of the Times	p. 54
Long live modern China	p. 55
A fearful house	p. 55
The foced plan	p. 55
On the role of the written word	p. 55
Plan for rational improvements to the city of Paris	p. 56
An intelligent view of the Avant-garde at the end of 1955	p. 58
The form of the city changes more quickly	p. 59
We are getting there	p. 60
The first stone falls	p. 60
Towards a lettrist lexicon	p. 60
Failure of the Marseille demonstration	p. 61
Preliminary models for a new urbanism	p. 62
The great game to come	p. 62
Definitions	p. 68
Attempt at a psychogeographical description of Les Halle	p. 72
On our means and our perspectives	p. 77
The Amsterdam Declaration	p. 80
Situationist theses on traffic	p. 81
Unitary Urbanism at the end of 1950's	p. 83
First proclamation of the Dutch Section of the SI	p. 89
Another city for another life	p. 92
Corrections to adopting the eleven points of Amsterdam	p. 96
Die Welt als Labyrinth	p. 96
The theory of moments and construction of situations	p. 100
Description of the yellow zone	p. 102
The Situationist frontier	p. 106
Critique of urbanism	p. 109
Elementary program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism	p. 116
Commentaries against urbanism	p. 119
Geopolitics of Hibernation	p. 125
Urbanism as will and representation	p. 134
The decline and fall of the spectacle-commodity economy	p. 138
On Wild Architecture	p. 152
New Babylon	p. 154
Panegyric [excerpts]	p. 170
Selected bibliography	p. 172
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