The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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The mid-twentieth century in Paris saw a movement identified as the Situationist International. City – Psychogeographic Microcosms. 3:AM: I think you say in The Spectacle of Disintegration that détournement is perhaps the Situationists' greatest strategic legacy, but I wonder whether you'd agree that the dérive is a useful strategy for negotiating the networked environment, or what you called the One is the internet itself which was a kind of wild west area, and the other was about networking together across various cities, we'd travel around and visit each other and form temporary associations. The situationists were are radical group of artists, theorists and activists, mainly in Paris in the '60s. €�The Great Sideshow of the Situationist International.” Yale French Studies, vol. In reading and reviewing McKenzie Wark's The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, I couldn't help but think about the practice of art in the city of Detroit. 'Allure' is an experiment in SITUATIONIST CINEMA. By the end of Savage Messiah, the utopian impulse of Situationist urbanism returns while the city is smashed, and even the police seem to fade into mere afterthought. Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 1996. Theory of the derive and other situationist writings on the city. (from the amazon blurb: "Simon Sadler searches for the Situationist City among the detritus of tracts, manifestos, and works of art that the SI left behind. It is an interesting idea to think about maps as both a tool to navigate the city as well as a tool to represent a particular experience in that city. The book is divided into three parts. SI member and utopian architect Constant's model of Yellow Sector, from Internationale Situationniste no.4, June 1960, shows the hanging Situationist city where play and residence are united. The dérive was a course of preparation, reconnaissance, a means of shaping situationist psychology among urban explorers for the eventuality of the situationist city.