Arts and Politics of the Situationist International 1957–1972

Situating the Situationists

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-08-22
Mått154 x 231 x 20 mm
Vikt445 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor276
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793647108

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A most effective and timely reminder of how significant SI was and how serious an omission from our cultural and political consciousness forgetting or ignoring its impact would be. Tightly packed sections discussing its iconic texts, movements, objet d’art, and other symbolic representations are comprehensive in their scope and depth. Forcefully written, it brings to light a counter history of its time that helps us realize the creative power that was made manifest during this relatively brief moment.