Nothingness remains a good repository of @situationist texts;
Nothingness remains a good repository of @situationist texts;
Society Distracted by Off-Camera Spectacle
Hashtags: #CriticalTheory #Neoliberalism #FrankfurtSchool #Journalism #Spectacle #FakeNews #Situationists #Authentic #Photography
"“I think, at this moment in particular, we need to be reminded to be disobedient"
She was an artist and the editor of the Situationist International: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jul/01/jacqueline-de-jong-influential-avant-garde-artist-dies-at-85 #SI #deJong #art #situationists
Seen at Mercer St. Books: this early-'80s edition of Vaneigem's "Revolution of Everyday Life" (Left Bank Books). I *never* see copies of this. I know this is in pristine condition because the type rubs off the cover after a while. (The cover of my copy is blank.) #Situationists
@bohemianchic
Always think long term and assume we'll win. Or as the situationists put it in the 1960s, "be realistic, demand the impossible!"
Huh. I never thought about it before, but this is a very pithy description of corporate social media DataFarms:
"The spectacle is not an aggregate of images but a social relation among people, mediated by images."
Guy Record, 'The Society of the Spectacle'
Quoted in:
https://libcom.org/article/review-whatever-happened-situationists