"Perhaps he has secrets for changing life? No, he’s just looking for some, I told myself." Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell, 1873) 1. It is a brutal fact that the defining quality of proletarian life ...

The Situationists’ story has been told before – but never with such verve, cheek and insight The title, you may recall, comes from one of the great slogans of the 1968 demonstrations and riots in ...

Introduction : ideology and the Situationist utopia / Tom McDonough -- The long walk of the Situationist International / Greil Marcus -- The great sleep and its clients (1955) / Guy Debord -- One step ...

A video documentary combining exhibition footage of the Situationist International exhibitions with film footage of the 1968 Paris student uprising and graffiti and slogans based on the ideas of Guy ...

The artist, writer and co-founder of the Situationist International, Ralph Rumney, has died of cancer at his home in Manosque, Provence, aged 67. Interviewed in The Map Is Not The Territory, a study ...

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Librairie Arthème FayardGuy Debord, Michèle Bernstein and Asger Jorn, 1961 Guy Debord’s best lines were ghostwritten.

Untitled, Dartboard-collage from the exhibition Destruktion af RSG-6 at the gallery Exi, Odense, Denmark, 1963, Courtesy Private Collection The venue is certainly spectacular. On a bend in the Spree ...

Igniting as an arts avant-garde in the 1950s and exploding as politically revolutionary at the heart of the Paris 1968 uprisings, the Situationist International has proved a tenaciously compelling ...