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Situationist

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“If love is under siege, it is because it threatens the very essence of commercial civilization. Everything is designed to make us forget that love is our most vivid manifestation and the most common power of life that is in us. Shouldn't we wonder how the lights that glimmer in the eye can blow a fuse for a time, even as barriers of oppression break and jam our passions? Yet despite a life stunted and distorted by mediated Spectacle, nothing has ever managed to strip love of its primal force. Although the heart's music fails to overwhelm the cacophony of profit efficiency, bit by bit it composes our destinies, according to tones, chords, and dissonances which render us happy if only we learn to harmonize the scattered notes that string emotions together.” ― Raoul Vaneigem

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Tiqqun all texts in order

Tiqqun I

Of Course You Know This Means War

What Is Critical Metaphysics?

Theory of Bloom

Phenomenology Of Everyday Life

Theses on the Imaginary Party

Silence and Beyond

On the Economy Considered as Black Magic

Raw Materials for a Theory of the Young Girl

Machine-Men: a Users Guide

The Critical Metaphysicians beneath the ‘Unemployed Persons’ Movement

Marginal Considerations on the Present Movement

The Jobless Speak

A Few Scandalous Actions of the Imaginary Party

Tiqqun II

Introduction to Civil War & How Is It To Be Done

Final Warning to the Imaginary Party Regarding Public Space

The Cybernetic Hypothesis

The Conquerors Had Won Easily

Theses on the Terrible Community

Untitled Notes on Immigration

The Problem of the Head

Progress doesn't want Those that don't want Progress

Stop Domesti(caf)tion

Robert Walser Quote

Report to the SASC Concerning an Imperial Apparatus

Notes on the Local

The Little Game of the Man of the Old Regime

You're never too Old to Ditch Out

Sonogram of a Potential

Hello!

This is not a Program & Critical Metaphysics could be born as a Science of Apparatuses

Commentary

An Anarchist on Tiqqunism

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Situationist Fall Winter 2026

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Complete online archive of The Situationist Times, an international, English-language periodical created and edited by Jacqueline de Jong, of which six issues were published between 1962 and 1967. A radical compendium using such Situationist tactics as détournement and a printed form of dérive, the journal included essays, artwork, found images, and quotations concerned with such issues as topology, politics, and spectacle culture.

The Situationist Times (0/1963-07/1973) : Redaktion : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Info (libcom.org):Complete online archive of The Situationist Times, an international, English-language periodical created and edited by Jac

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Now I'm going to raise a little bit of hate by posting this on a Friday night; but I'm really piling up a lot of things, and I have to post a link to this book on my blog so I don't lose it. Has anyone ever told you about Gui Debord and/or Situationism? I'll get to it, tell you what little I know and why it's interesting to me for the blog…

Ahora criaré un poco de odio publicando esto en viernes noche; pero es que de verdad se me acumulan las cosas y tengo que colgar en mi blog enlace a este libro para que no se me pierda. ¿Les ha hablado alguien alguna vez de Guy Debord y/o el Situacionismo? Voy a ello, les cuento lo poco que me se yo y por qué me interesa para el blog….

The Situationists were an informal group of artists gathered around Debord (informal in formation, not in neglecting aims and principles, as I've read disgruntled people complaining about Guy interfering in everything) who were adorable left-wing dipsomaniacs who left us a few conceptual marvels. The one that will interest you most is how, in the middle of the last century, they defended taking works, logos, symbols, and so on, and redefining them in their intended use, often in a burlesque manner and often in a political sense. The memes you've probably seen on their social media today are heirs to this art-activism they invented.

Los situacionistas eran informal grupo de artistas reunidos en torno a Debord (informal en formación, no en descuidar fines y principios, que he leído a despechados quejándose de Guy metiéndose en todo) que eran adorables dipsómanos de izquierdas que nos dejaron unas cuantas maravillas conceptuales. La que más os interesará es como defienden a mediados del siglo pasado el tomar obras, logos, símbolos… y resignificarlos en el uso dado, muchas veces de forma burlescas y otras tantas en sentido político. Los memes que habrán visto hoy mismo en sus redes son herederos de este arte-activismo que inventaron.

And what interests me? Well, the Situationists' politics lead them to judge how capitalism trades on spectacle (using the term as we now do with 'content') and everything in life experience becomes a spectacle to be traded, even though they weren't familiar with reality shows. Doesn't it sound similar to my theories in Pornoculture and what I wrote here recently regarding what I call Porneia?

¿Y qué me interesa a mi? Pues lo político de los Situacionistas les lleva a juzgar como el capitalismo comercia con el espectáculo (usando el término como nosotros ahora hacemos con 'contenido') y todo en la experiencia de la vida se convierte en espectáculo con el que comerciar aunque ellos no conocieron los reality shows ¿No les suena parecido a mis teorías en Pornocultura y lo que escribí aquí hace poco al respecto de lo que llamo Porneia?

Whether similar or not, if they weren't the pioneers of some of my theories, at least they'll clarify my ideas or give me some insight, I think. But I won't know until I begin to study their writings (there's no other word; it's reading, highlighting, meditating, annotating…). And although I have a printed version of the book in question… somewhere in the house, among some little pile of books (I already explained my order in another post); It's perfect for me to have it in PDF format so I can highlight like crazy with different colors and take screenshots without using my phone. You saw how I had that French anthropology book the other day…

Se parezca o no, si no fueron ellos los pioneros de algunas teorías mías, al menos me aclararán ideas o darán de las misma, estimo. Pero no lo sabré hasta que me ponga a estudiar sus escritos (no hay otra palabra, es leer, subrayas, meditar, anotar…). Y aunque tengo una versión impresa del libro que nos ocupa… en algún lugar de la casa ente alguna montañita de libros amontonados (ya expliqué de mi orden en otro post); me viene perfecto tenerlo en PDF para subrayar con colores distintos como una loca y hacer capturas sin usar el móvil. Ya visteis otro día como tenía aquel libro francés de antropología..

I digress. I wish I could tell you more, but I'm the first one who has to read THIS book, generously provided by @spaceintruderdetector on SPANISH on their blog. (HERE ENGLISH versión) I'm an ignorant, unapologetic person who tells you I read and when I don't know something, I make my blog not a pulpit for definitive statements, but a place for debate, or at least a journal of how I'm learning and building my theories. Thanks for the book!

Divago. Me gustaría poder comentaros más, pero soy la primera que tiene que leerse ESTE libro que nos facilita generosamente @spaceintruderdetector en su blog AQUÍ. Soy una ignorante, sin complejos que os digo que leo y cuando no se de algo, pero hago de mi blog no un púlpito para decir nada en firme, sino un lugar de debate o al menos diario de cómo voy aprendiendo y construyendo mis teorías. Gracias por el libro!

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It's clear that the Situationists' excellent work wasn't continued as much as it deserved; there should be much more (conscious) recontextualization of the Teletubbies, because they really lend themselves to it…

And this reminds me that I should share something with you all; I'll do it soon…