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.

Mikkel Bolt, Jakob Jakobsen (eds.), Cosmonauts of the Future: Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, 2015, Log, PDF.

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

Journals

• Internationale situationniste, 12 numbers, ed. Guy Debord, 1958-69, HTML. (French)
  • Internacional Situacionista, 1: La realización del arte, numbers 1-6, trans. Luis Navarro, 1999. (Spanish)
• The Situationist Times, 6 numbers, eds. Jacqueline de Jong (1-6) and Noël Arnaud (1-2), Hengelo (NL), Copenhagen and Paris, 1962-67. Sample pages, Context. (English)

Books

• Guy Debord, La Société du Spectacle, Paris: Buchet-Chastel, 1967; 2010. (French)
  • 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. (French)
  • 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)

Manifestos, proclamations

• "Manifeste", Internationale situationniste 4, ed. G.-E. Debord, Paris, Jun 1960, pp 36-38. Dated 17 May 1960. (French)
  • "Situationist Manifesto", trans. Fabian Tompsett, in Cosmonauts of the Future, eds. Bolt and Jakobsen, 2015, pp 47-49. (English)

• "Kampen om det situkratiska samhället. Ett situationistiskt manifest", Drakabygget. Tidskrift för konst, mot atombomber, påvar och politiker 2-3 (1962); repr. in Situationist Times 2 (1962). Signed by the members of the Stockholm Conference in August 1962. (Swedish)
  • "The Struggle of the Situcratic Society: A Situationist Manifesto", in Cosmonauts of the Future, eds. Bolt and Jakobsen, 2015, pp 89-95. (English)

Anthologies

• Situationist International Anthology, ed. & trans. Ken Knabb, 1981; rev. & exp. ed., Berkeley, CA: Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006, 532 pp, Log, EPUB, HTML. (English)
• Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents, ed. Tom McDonough, MIT Press, 2002. (English)
• The Situationists and the City: A Reader, ed. Tom McDonough, London: Verso, 2010, 288 pp. [1] (English)
• Cosmonauts of the Future: Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, eds. Mikkel Bolt and Jakob Jakobsen, Copenhagen: Nebula, and New York: Autonomedia, 2015, 304 pp. [2] (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
• Situationist Film at 0xDB

Documentaries

• On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972, documentary, 1989, 22 min.

Literature

• Giorgio Agamben, Guy Debord, Enrico Ghezzi, Luisa Passerini, Alberto Piccinini, Francesco Poli, Filippo Scarpelli, Roberto Silvestri, Paolo Virno, I Situazionisti, Rome: Manifestolibri Set, 1991, 94 pp. (Italian)
• Sadie Plant, The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International and After, London: Routledge, 1992, 240 pp. (English)
• Stewart Home (ed.), What Is Situationism? A Reader, Edinburgh and San Francisco: AK Press, 1996, 203 pp. (English)
• October 79: "Guy Debord and the Internationale situationniste", ed. Thomas F. McDonough, MIT Press, Winter 1997. (English)
• Simon Sadler, The Situationist City, MIT Press, 1998, 248 pp. Excerpt, Excerpt. (English)
• Catherine de Zegher, Mark Wigley (eds.), The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond, New York: Drawing Center, and MIT Press, 2001. (English)
  • Mark Wigley, "Paper, Scisors, Blur", pp 26-68. On Constant's New Babylon.
• 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
• Internationale Situationniste in English

See also

• Lettrist International
• Lettrism