On Saturday, June 13th we're excited to host a virtual event with Ian Alan Paul, author of the recently published book "The Reticular Society" (PM Press, 2026). Joined by scholar Andrew Culp, Ian will reflect on the networked reorganization of capitalist society, the diverse ways digital technologies have invaded and imposed their shape upon everyday life, and what forms of revolt might remain possible against the suffocating flows of our online world.

Register for the event and find your copy of "The Reticular Society" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3617-the-networked-colonization-of-everyday-life.html . Can't join the conversation live? Sign up anyway and we'll send you the recording to stream at your convenience.

This event is organized in collaboration with @pmpress as part of their All We Have Is Each Other Speaker Series.

#TechnoFascism #Cybernetics #Situationist #IanAlanPaul #FeministBookstore FirestormCoop (- L)

Just realized that the Fluxus movement and the Situationists were contemporary and wondering whether there was any cross-pollination or whether that was a huge missed opportunity. I don't see any cross-references on the Wikipedia pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International

#Fluxus #Situationist

https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-will-take-on-joe-rogan-for-podcaster-supremacy-2000744221

“For decades now, Americans have been told that we should trust the system, but our children are sicker, chronic disease is exploding, and the answers that we’ve been given aren’t working,” Kennedy says in the teaser video. “Many of us have come to the conclusion that government actually lies to us.”

The video strikes an incredibly dark and conspiratorial tone, more in line with outsiders who complain about the system than someone now deeply entrenched with it. The whole thing comes off as very weird, given the fact that Kennedy isn’t resigning his position as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. He’s just adding “podcaster” to his list of duties.

#MAGA #rfk #fascism #walterBenjamin #aesthetics #USPol #classwar #spectacle #situationist

🧠 Análisis Lúcido #9 — just published.

Sir Debord
La Sociedad del Espectáculo no envejeció. Se actualizó.

We took the 'Sir' from Mackinder — the imperial geographer who justified every war — and gave it to who deserves it.

Guy Debord tenía razón. Not as a prophet. As an anatomist.

The spectacular time still steals the only thing no one can take from you — except yourself. Six simultaneous screens. Breaking news from four podiums. And Debord's book under the keyboard at 3am.

El modo vampiro no es enfermedad.
Es soberanía temporal.
Y eso, aunque suene excesivo, es una forma concreta de deserción.

https://desalienacion.org/analisis-lucido-9.html

#AnálisisLúcido #Debord #DigitalSovereignty #DesalienacionDigital #Situationist

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

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