Situationist International Anthology
by Ken KnabbThis page is the Table of Contents for the online version of The Situationist International Anthology. The is a project very much in progress. Eventually, text and HTML versions will be available. It will be also available on various servers.
Links on this page lead to parts of the book that are online. If you want to help scan or type a chapter in, contact Chuck at ctmunson@wam.umd.edu. I'm willing to coordinate this to avoid people duplicating each other's work. Send chapters (in text or HTML form) to Chuck and he'll link them to this page.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface / ixPRE-S.I. TEXTS
Formulary for a New Urbanism (Chtcheglov, 1953) / 1Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography (Debord, 1955) / 5
Methods of Detournement (Debord & Wolman, 1956) / 8
The Alba Platform (Lettrist International, 1956) / 14
Notes on the Formation of an Imaginist Bauhaus (Jorn, 1957) / 16
Report of the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency's Conditions of Organization and Action (Debord, 1957)* / 17
SOUNDTRACKS OF TWO FILMS BY GUY DEBORD
On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Period of Time (1959) / 29Critique of Seperation (1961) / 34
FRENCH S.I. JOURNALS
#1 (1958)
The Sound and the Fury / 41
Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation / 43
Definitions / 45
The Situationists and Automation (Jorn)* / 46
No Useless Leniency (Bernstein)* / 47
Action in Belgium Against the International Assembly of Art
Critics / 48
#2 (1958)
Theory of the Derive (Debord) / 50
#3 (1959)
Detournement as Negation and Prelude / 55
Situationist Theses on Traffic (Debord) / 56
#4 (1960)
Gangland and Philosophy (Kotanyi)* / 59
#5 (1960)
The Adventure* / 60
The Fourth SI Conference in London* / 61
#6 (1961)
Instructions for Taking Up Arms / 63
Elementary Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism
(Kotanyi & Vaneigem) / 65
Perspectives for Conscious Alterations in Everyday Life
(Debord) / 68
#7 (1962)
Geopolitics of Hibernation / 76
The Bad Days Will End / 82
The Fifth SI Conference in Goteborg* / 88
Basic Banalities (I) (Vaneigem) / 89
#8 (1963)
Ideologies, Classes and the Domination of Nature* / 101
The Avant-Garde of Presence* / 109
The Countersituationist Campaign in Various Countries* / 111
All the King's Men / 114
Basic Banalities (II) (Vaneigem) / 118
Situationist International Anti-Public Relations Service / 134
#9 (1964)
Now, the SI / 135
Questionnaire / 138
Response to a Questionnaire from the Center for
Socio-Experimental Art / 143
#10 (1966)
Address to Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries / 148
The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy / 153
The Class Struggles in Algeria / 160
Some Theoretical Questions To Be Treated Without Academic
Debate or Speculation (Vaneigem) / 168
Captive Words: Preface to a Situationist Dictionary
(Khayati) / 170
The Role of Godard / 175
The Ideology of Dialogue / 177
Interview with an Imbecile / 179
The Algeria of Daniel Guerin, Libertarian / 181
Domenach Against Alienation* / 183
#11 (1967)
The Explosion Point of Ideology in China / 185
Two Local Wars / 194
Our Goals and Methods in the Strasbourg Scandal / 204
The Situationists and the New Forms of Action Against Politics
and Art (Vienet) / 213
To Have as Goal Practical Truth (Vaneigem) / 216
Contributions Toward Rectifying Public Opinion Concerning
Revolution in the Underdeveloped Countries (Khayati) / 219
Minimum Definition of Revolutionary Organizations / 223
Six Postscripts to the Previous Issue* /224
#12
The Beginning of an Era / 225
Reform and Counterreform in Bureaucratic Power / 256
How Not To Understand Situationist Books* / 265
Preliminaries on the Councils and Councilist Organization
(Riesel) / 270
Notice to the Civilized Concerning Generalized Self-Management
(Vaneigem) / 283
The Conquest of Space in the Time of Power (Rothe) / 290
The Latest Exclusions* / 293
Maitron the Historian* / 295
The Elite and the Backward* / 296
Cinema and Revolution / 297
The Organization Question for the SI (Debord) / 298
MISCELLANEOUS S.I. PUBLICATIONS
Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program (Canjuers & Debord, 1960) / 305For a Revolutionary Judgment of Art (Debord, 1961) / 310
Theses on the Paris Commune (Debord, Kotanyi & Vaneigem, 1962) / 314
The Situationists and the New Forms of Action in Politics and Art (Debord, 1963)* / 317
On the Poverty of Student Life (1966) / 319
Untitled programatic statements (1965 & 1969) / 337
MAY 1968 DOCUMENTS
Communique (Sorbonne Occupation Committee) / 343Watch Out for Manipulators! Watch Out for Bureaucrats! (SOC) / 343
Slogans To Be Spread Now by Every Means (SOC) / 344
Telegrams (SOC) / 345
Report on the Occupation of the Sorbonne (CMDO) / 346
For the Power of the Workers Councils (CMDO) / 349
Address to All Workers (CMDO) / 350
INTERNAL S.I. TEXTS
Provisional Statutes of the SI (1969) / 355Provisional Theses for the Discussion of the New Theoretico-Practical Orientations in the SI (Salvadori, 1970)* / 357
Remarks on the SI Today (Debord, 1970)* / 361
Declaration (Debord, Riesel & Vienet, 1970) / 366
Untitled text (Debord, 1971)* / 368
TRANSLATOR'S NOTES / 371
BIBLIOGRAPHY / 378
THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT (SELECTED OPINIONS ON
THE SITUATIONISTS) / 381
INDEX TO "S.I. ANTHOLOGY" / 393
INDEX TO DEBORD'S "SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE" / 403
INDEX TO VANEIGEM'S "TREATISE ON LIVING" / 404
* Excerpts
Updated August 21st, 1995
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