I have homework to do: for the third time in the last couple of months, #Situationism has come across my path. I need to learn more. #SituationistInternational

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
Guy Debord

Guy Debord

Situationism and dérive have become popular again, especially in times when the simulation of reality by AI is making significant and at times unsettling advances.

Double Agents in the Society of the Spectacle — Guy Debord and Artificial Intelligence

https://medium.com/@justus.wunschik/double-agents-in-the-society-of-the-spectacle-guy-debord-and-artificial-intelligence-24dfdc21ed77?sk=b5ad08866a0e664ec5e9279bb1d9785e

#situationism #debord #ai #chatgpt #mediacriticism #mediaculture #spectacle

Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

"I don’t believe it. I have always understood everything, but this! Why mix
together Budapest, libertarian Catalonia, workers councils, Reich, and de Sade?
Why? Why? Even Fourier is in there! Bakunin and the Canton Commune!"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PVSD7R3JAyY

#renevienet #dialectics #french #cinema #situationism #detournement #guydebord #revolution #marxism #communism #martialarts #insurrection #history #labourhistory

For any #weeb wanting to get into #situationism, #zom100 (Bucket List of the Dead) may be a good stating point. It's in essence a #detournement of the zombie genre where mundane existence under capitalism is the source of horror, while post-apocalyptic life is pretty great actually.

If anything this picture from the second variant of the opening should tell you everything you need to know about creators views on society of the spectacle vs. actually living.

“Anyone who talks about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life - without grasping what is subversive about love and positive in the refusal of constraints - has a corpse in his mouth.”
From “The Revolution of Everyday Life”, Raoul Vaneigem

#Politics #Situationist #Situationism