Arts and Politics of the Situationist International 1957-1972

Situating the Situationists

1. Edition 2021

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doi.org/10.5771/9781793647092
ISBN print: 978-1-7936-4708-5
ISBN online: 978-1-7936-4709-2
Lexington, Lanham Lexington, Lanham

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Abstract

Arts and Politics of the Situationist International contextualizes the SI within a comprehensive aesthetic and theoretical framework that integrates its concepts and practical activities with previous critical thinkers, political activists, artists, and poets. The SI belongs to a history of radical gestures and cultural practices concerned with re-imagining everyday life and overcoming alienation. This book regards the SI as a critical interdisciplinary endeavor in the history of consciousness, particularly as a moment in an ongoing western-European trajectory of aesthetic negation dating back to the early nineteenth century. The chapters search for origins of the SI in French Symbolist poetry, Dada and Surrealism, Hegelian-Marxism, and Lefebvrian social theory in an effort to provide a clearly-defined ‘something’ out of which the SI developed as an increasingly radical collective of artists, writers, and theorists.

Schlagworte

France Dada and Surrealism radicalism nineteen-sixties aesthetic negation

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Preface
1–36 Introduction 1–36
37–86 French Symbolist Strategies and SI Aesthetic Practices 37–86
87–126 Dada and Surrealist Strategies in SI Practices 87–126
127–172 Hegelian-Marxism in SI Political Theory 127–172
173–214 Urbanism and SI Social Theory 173–214
215–224 Conclusion 215–224
225–234 Bibliography 225–234
235–246 Index 235–246
247–248 About the Author 247–248

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