Situationist International

Internationale situationniste 1, Jun 1958, Log.

Guy Debord, The Society of Spectacle, 1967–, Log.

Ken Knabb (ed.), Situationist International Anthology, 1981/2006, Log, EPUB, HTML.

Founded in July 1957, the Situationist International brought together currents of experimental poetry, avant-garde art, and radical social criticism to explore new techniques of engagement in cultural protest and revolutionary praxis. Although the organization itself remained small and disbanded in 1972, the SI shaped the interaction of art and politics at crucial moments in the evolution of postwar culture, including the transnational uprisings of 1968 and 1977. Its influence continues to be felt today. (Source)

Publications

(in French unless noted)

Journal

• Internationale situationniste, 12 numbers, 1958-69, HTML.
  • Internacional Situacionista, 1: La realización del arte, numbers 1-6, trans. Luis Navarro, 1999. (Spanish)

Books

• Guy Debord, La Société du Spectacle, Paris: Buchet-Chastel, 1967; 2010.
  • Society of the Spectacle, trans. Fredy Perlman and Jon Supak, 1970. (English)
  • Die Gesellschaft des Spektakels, 1978; 1996. (German)
  • La societa dello spettacolo, 1979. (Italian)
  • Society of the Spectacle, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, 1995. (English)
  • Gösteri Toplumu. ve Yorumlar, trans. Ayşen Ekmekçi and Okşan Taşkent, 1996. (Turkish)
  • A Sociedade do Espetaculo, 1997. (Portuguese)
  • Society of the Spectacle, trans. Ken Knabb, 2002; 2005.
  • La Sociedad Del Espectacul, 2002. (Spanish)
  • De spektakelmaatschappij, 2005. (Dutch)
  • Spektákulum társadalma, 2006. (Hungarian)
  • Społeczeństwo spektaklu oraz Rozważania o społeczeństwie spektaklu, 2006. (Polish)
  • Společnost spektáklu, 2007. (Czech)
  • Η Κοινωνία του Θεάματος. (Greek)

• Raoul Vaneigem, Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations, Paris: Gallimard, 1967.
  • Tratado del saber vivir para uso de las jovenes generaciones, trans. Javier Urcanibia, 1977; 2008. (Spanish)
  • The Revolution Of Everyday Life, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Left Bank Books and Rebel Press, 1983; Rebel Press, 2001, 279 pp. (English)

Anthologies

• Ken Knabb (ed.), Situationist International Anthology, trans. Ken Knabb, 1981; rev. & exp. ed., Berkeley, CA: Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006, 532 pp, Log, EPUB, HTML. (English)

More

• Publications on situationists at Monoskop Log
• Situationist Library at 1000 Little Hammers
• Libcom.org's reading guide

Film

• Debord's films on UbuWeb
• Viénet's films on UbuWeb
• The cinematographic work of Guy Debord and René Viénet at 0xDB
• On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972, documentary, 1989, 22 min.

Literature

• Sadie Plant, The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International and After, London: Routledge, 1992, 240 pp. (English)
• October 79: "Guy Debord and the Internationale situationniste", ed. Thomas F. McDonough, MIT Press, Winter 1997. (English)
• McKenzie Wark, The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, Verso, 2011, 224 pp. (English)
• Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Jakob Jakobsen (eds.), Expect Anything Fear Nothing: The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, Copenhagen: Nebula, and New York: Autonomedia, 2011, 288 pp. (English)

Resources

• Situationist International Online
• Situationist International Archives
• Situationist International in Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
• Situationist International resource compiled by Co Seegers

See also

• Lettrist International
• Lettrism