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
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
#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
“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