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The Situationist City by Simon Sadler

The Situationist City Simon Sadler ebook
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ISBN: 0262193922, 9780585028286
Page: 352
Format: djvu

Just finished reading The Situationist City by Simon Sadler. Considering the search for meaningful engagement in a society that feels increasingly fragmented, certain aspects of Situationist theory are more topical than ever. The Situationist International, led by Guy Debord and central to the Paris uprising in May 1968, published many incendiary texts on politics and art in the journal Internationale Situationniste. For the Situationists, your city was there to be misused, to be detourned. This is because of how much your streets are an extension of capitalism. Diorama Map: Photographing the Situationist City. His publications study the architectural ideas of the Archigram group, the Situationists, and other experimental practices. Drawing out mental maps of cities is nary a dull activity (first time I've used the word 'nary'). It comes from a group of theorists called the Situationists, whose work I have been interested in since learning about it in a first year art course. €� By Tom McDonough – Tuesday, 16th March 2010. The city would become a giant playground, its quarters acting as stations for a perpetual Revolutionary Festival. Most importantly “there is no longer any Temple of the Sun”; there is no 'place of enlightenment' in the city where cultural activities can come together. The Situationists: Guy Debord, Michèle Bernstein and Asger Jorn. The Situationist movement emerged as a critique of capitalism in 1957 and played a key role in the May 1968 uprising in Paris. Guy Debord's 1957 map The Naked City. The situationists hoped that architecture would ”revolutionize everday life, release the ordinary citizen into world of experiment, anarchy and play”. The situationist city by simon sadler: guy debord by anselm jappe; Donald nicholson-smith. Tom McDonough celebrates the subversive poetic vision of the Situationists.