Situationism

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Situationism was a mid-20th-century radical artistic and political movement, led by the Situationist International, that critiqued consumer society and sought to transform everyday life through experimental practices and subversive interventions.

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Situationism canonical 3
situationism 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art movement
political movement
aimsFor self-management of society
total revolution
transformation of everyday life
centralConceptDefinedAs construction of situations
criticizes advertising
mass media
passive spectatorship
spectacular consumption
emergedInDecade 1950s
emergedInPeriod mid-20th century
geographicFocus France
Italy
Scandinavia
Western Europe
hasAlternativeName Situationist movement
Situationist theory
hasCoreConcept anti-capitalism
anti-spectacle
critique of consumer society
critique of everyday life
dérive
détournement
psychogeography
revolution of everyday life
situation
spectacle
unitary urbanism
hasIdeologicalRoot Dada
Marxism
Surrealism
anarchism
avant-garde art traditions
council communism
hasKeyFigure Asger Jorn
Constant Nieuwenhuys
Gil J. Wolman
linked to: Gil J Wolman

Guy Debord
Ivan Chtcheglov
Michèle Bernstein
Raoul Vaneigem
hasKeyText Formulary for a New Urbanism
Instructions for an Insurrection
On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time
Report on the Construction of Situations
The Revolution of Everyday Life
The Society of the Spectacle
Theses on the Cultural Revolution
hasLegacyIn critical media activism
culture jamming
situationist-inspired urban exploration
hasMainOrganization Situationist International
influencedEvent May 1968 events in France
influencedField activism
autonomist Marxism
contemporary art
cultural studies
political theory
punk culture
urban studies
opposes bureaucratic socialism
commodity fetishism
consumer capitalism
spectacular society
relatedMovement Letterist International
Lettrism
Provo movement
Socialisme ou Barbarie
timeSpan 1950s–1970s
usesMethod critical theory
dérive
détournement
psychogeographical exploration
subversive artistic intervention
viewsArtAs means to transform life rather than separate sphere
viewsUrbanSpaceAs field for experimental practices

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Situationist International ideology situationism
linked to: Situationism
Guy Debord movement Situationism
L’imagination au pouvoir associatedWithIdeology situationism
linked to: Situationism
Manifesto featuresManifestoOf Situationism