Situationist International

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Situationist International was a radical mid-20th-century avant-garde movement of artists and theorists that critiqued consumer society and championed revolutionary transformations of everyday life.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art movement
avant-garde movement
radical political organization
revolutionary group
coreConcept constructed situation
dérive
détournement
psychogeography
spectacle
countryOfOrigin France
dissolutionReason expulsions of members
internal conflicts
dissolved 1972
fieldOfWork aesthetics
political theory
social critique
urban theory
foundedBy Asger Jorn
Constant Nieuwenhuys
Guy Debord
hasMember Alexander Trocchi
Asger Jorn
Gianfranco Sanguinetti
Guy Debord
Jørgen Nash
Michèle Bernstein
Mustapha Khayati
Ralph Rumney
Raoul Vaneigem
hasPart Belgian section
British section
German section
Italian section
Scandinavian section
hasSlogan Beneath the paving stones, the beach
Live without dead time
Never work
headquartersLocation Paris
ideology Marxism
anti-authoritarianism
anti-capitalism
council communism
libertarian socialism
Situationism
surface form: situationism
inception 1957
influenced May 1968 protests in France
surface form: May 1968 events in France

autonomist Marxism
contemporary art theory
critical theory
punk subculture
influencedBy Council communism
Dada
G. W. F. Hegel
surface form: Hegel

Lettrism
Karl Marx
surface form: Marx

Surrealism
languageOfWorkOrName English
French
mainInterest critique of consumer society
critique of mass media
revolutionary transformation of everyday life
urbanism
movement neo-Marxism
postwar avant-garde
notableEvent participation in May 1968 in France
notableIdea abolition of work as separate sphere
self-management by workers councils
unification of art and life
notableWork Situationist International self-linksurface differs
surface form: Internationale Situationniste

On the Poverty of Student Life
The Revolution of Everyday Life
The Society of the Spectacle
positionOn opposed to Stalinism
opposed to bureaucratic socialism
opposed to commodification of everyday life
opposed to consumer capitalism
publishedIn Situationist International self-linksurface differs
surface form: Internationale Situationniste

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Dada influenced Situationist International
Asger Jorn movement Situationist International
Asger Jorn influenced Situationist International
this entity surface form: Situationist artists
Asger Jorn memberOf Situationist International
Situationist International notableWork Situationist International self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Internationale Situationniste
Situationist International publishedIn Situationist International self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Internationale Situationniste
Guy Debord movement Situationist International
Guy Debord coFounded Situationist International