It used to be "10,000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire"

I note the recuperation of #situationist language. "You deserve more"

All that is solid turns to vape.

The vaping of society

#vape #uk

"For me, psychogeography is an invaluable and radically different tool that we can engage to help us understand the social and geographical environment in which we live."

https://psychogeographicreview.com/psychogeography-taking-back-the-city/
#psychogeography #Situationist #Map

Psychogeography: Taking Back the City

  The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few meters; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least resistance which is automa…

Psychogeographic Review
TJ Clark "We’re all tired of apocalypse-speak. Nonetheless, the spectacle still has a few surprises up its sleeve… Trump, the genius of détournement, delights in saying out loud what the “lunatic left” is accused of." https://blackd.substack.com/p/liberal-hypocrisy-under-threat-shock
#Situationist
The Don of Détournement

Spectacle Undermines Liberal Hypocrisy Shock

David Black’s Substack

In the 1960s, an Artist Imagined an Ever-Changing #City That Feels a Lot Like Today

(I actually think today's city doesn't look or feel like New Babylon, but anyway... the article is interesting)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-babylon-future-cities-constant-nieuwenhuys

#architecture #constantnieuwenhuys #guydebord #huizinga #philosophy #situationism #situationist #situationistinternational #newbabylon #cobra #HomoLudens

The Strange, Forgotten Promise Of New Babylon

Constant Nieuwenhuys's ever-changing city was ahead of its time.

Atlas Obscura

Reading 'The Revolution of Everyday Life' by #situationist Raoul Vaneigem I came across the following passage:

"""
Insatiable desire for passionate knowledge of one pretty girl after another stems from anxiety and from fear of love, so afraid are we of never encountering anything but objects.
"""
(Donald Nicholson-Smiths translation)

In 1967 bro already foresaw the coming of the #anime #waifu.
BRO KNEW, AND TRIED TO WARN US!

Situationist?

I'm looking for any (academic or non- academic) people or groups investigating or practicing Situationist approaches to geography, cartography and architecture.

If you know anything, please point me in the right direction. Thanks!

#situationist #geography #cartography #maps #architecture #debord #AsgerJorn #psychogéographie #psychogeography #situationiste

#PortfolioDay !!!

I'm a British artist living in #Porto.
Theories of #philosophy of #memory inspire my #cyanotype #origami and #stitchwork creations.

Currently working on #Situationist International studies of cities and maps, and philosophy of cultural memory. Would love to collaborate with a #cartographer or #architect ...

Find more of my work here... https://alunkirby.com/

Thank you!

#PortoArt #PortoArtist #Cameraless #cameralessPhotography #Memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #Sashiko #Debord

90s Alternative and Philosophy now available for pre-order! I’ve got a chapter in there on the spectacle, recuperation, and grunge aesthetics. Should be out in the next few months or so. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/90s-alternative-and-philosophy/ #popculture #philosophy #grunge #90s #situationist #spectacle
’90s Alternative and Philosophy - McFarland

’90s Alternative and Philosophy Modern Rock Meditations Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene 978-1-4766-9723-9 979-8-3686-0012-3

McFarland

"What are the organisational perspectives of life in a society which authentically "reorganises production on the basis of the free and equal association of the producers"? Work would more and more be reduced as an exterior necessity through the automation of production and the socialisation of vital goods, which would finally give complete liberty to the individual."

The Situationist Manifesto, 1960

http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/9

#situationist #SI #liberty #manifestos

@situationist

The Situationist International Text Library/Manifesto