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“Shake in Your Boots Bureaucrats!”: Resistance, Recuperation, and the Legacy of the Situationists
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In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, with speak with Bill Brown, author of the publication Not Bored, about the history and enduring legacy of the Situationist International (SI). The SI was a small group of autonomous anti-capitalists, based largely in France, who in the 1950s and 1960s, developed a sweeping critique of contemporary consumer society, which they described as “the Spectacle,” which continues to resonate today as the internet has come to dominate much of our lives.
During our discussion, we cover the concept of “the Spectacle,” and also Situationist ideas around recuperation, their critique of the Left, and how they popularized various forms of what has come to be known as “culture jamming.” We also speak with Bill about the history of the SI and its role in the events of May 1968 in France, where protests and university occupations helped to kick off a wave of mass wildcat strikes that almost brought down the French government. We then turn and talk about how Situationist ideas were picked by a new generation of anarcho-punks in the US, and how this influenced currents within the squatting movement in New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Situationists remain a massive cornerstone in anti-capitalist thought and practice in the post-war period, having influenced a wide range of anarchist and autonomist tendencies along with subversive currents within graffiti, art, underground music, and film.
Some of the texts mentioned in the podcast include:
- Society of the Spectacle
- The Revolution of Everyday Life
- On the Poverty of Student Life
- The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy
- Enragés and Situationists in the Occupations Movement
- Worker-Student Action Committees
- War in the Neighborhood
More Info: Not Bored website, interview with Bill on the Antifada podcast, and An Introduction to the Situationists
372 tập
Manage episode 439387865 series 2167886
In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, with speak with Bill Brown, author of the publication Not Bored, about the history and enduring legacy of the Situationist International (SI). The SI was a small group of autonomous anti-capitalists, based largely in France, who in the 1950s and 1960s, developed a sweeping critique of contemporary consumer society, which they described as “the Spectacle,” which continues to resonate today as the internet has come to dominate much of our lives.
During our discussion, we cover the concept of “the Spectacle,” and also Situationist ideas around recuperation, their critique of the Left, and how they popularized various forms of what has come to be known as “culture jamming.” We also speak with Bill about the history of the SI and its role in the events of May 1968 in France, where protests and university occupations helped to kick off a wave of mass wildcat strikes that almost brought down the French government. We then turn and talk about how Situationist ideas were picked by a new generation of anarcho-punks in the US, and how this influenced currents within the squatting movement in New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Situationists remain a massive cornerstone in anti-capitalist thought and practice in the post-war period, having influenced a wide range of anarchist and autonomist tendencies along with subversive currents within graffiti, art, underground music, and film.
Some of the texts mentioned in the podcast include:
- Society of the Spectacle
- The Revolution of Everyday Life
- On the Poverty of Student Life
- The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy
- Enragés and Situationists in the Occupations Movement
- Worker-Student Action Committees
- War in the Neighborhood
More Info: Not Bored website, interview with Bill on the Antifada podcast, and An Introduction to the Situationists
372 tập
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