The Real Split in the International: Theses on the Situationist International and Its Time, 1972 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780745321271)

Exploding as politically revolutionary at the heart of the Paris 1968 uprisings, the Situationist International has proved a tenaciously compelling radical movement in terms of aesthetics and political theory. This volume presents an understanding of the revolutionary thought that inspired the Situationists and has established the Situationist movement - of which Guy Debord was the key member - as one of the most influential of the 20th century. signal the end of it. For him, it had become clear that the Situationist's success had produced - within its own ranks as well as outside them - a host of fans and onlookers who amounted to little more than consumers of a radicality that had become fashionable. In this way the movement had begun to encompass the very society of the spectacle that the Situationists had challenged. There was a danger that Situationist theory could turn into ideology - Debord's reaction was to break up the movement.

Author: Guy Debord
ISBN-10: 0745321275
ISBN-13: 9780745321271
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2003
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.16h x 4.72w x 0.43d