Situationist International Anthology Book

Preface     ix
Pre-S.I. Texts
Formulary for a New Urbanism (Chtcheglov, 1953)     1
Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography (Debord, 1955)     8
Proposals for Rationally Improving the City of Paris (Lettrist International, 1955)     12
A User's Guide to Detournement (Debord & Wolman, 1956)     14
The Alba Platform (Lettrist International, 1956)     21
Notes on the Formation of an Imaginist Bauhaus (Jorn, 1957)     23
Report on the Construction of Situations (Debord, 1957)     25
French Journals
(1958)
The Sound and the Fury     47
Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation     49
Definitions     51
Theses on Cultural Revolution (Debord)     53
The Situationists and Automation (Jorn)     55
No Useless Leniency (Bernstein)     58
Action in Belgium Against the International Assembly of Art Critics     59
(1958)
Theory of the Derive (Debord)     62
(1959)
Detournement as Negation and Prelude     67
Situationist Theses on Traffic (Debord)     69
Another City for Another Life (Constant)     71
(1960)
The Use of Free Time     74
Gangland and Philosophy (Kotanyi)     76
(1960)
TheAdventure     79
The Fourth SI Conference in London     81
(1961)
Instructions for an Insurrection     84
Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism (Kotanyi & Vaneigem)     86
Perspectives for Conscious Changes in Everyday Life (Debord)     90
(1962)
Geopolitics of Hibernation     100
The Bad Days Will End     107
The Fifth SI Conference in Goteborg     114
Basic Banalities (Part 1) (Vaneigem)     117
(1963)
Ideologies, Classes, and the Domination of Nature     131
The Avant-Garde of Presence     142
The Counter-Situationist Campaign in Various Countries     145
All the King's Men     149
Basic Banalities (Part 2) (Vaneigem)     154
Anti-Public Relations Notice     173
(1964)
Now, the SI     174
Questionnaire     178
Response to a Questionnaire from the Center for Socio-Experimental Art     183
(1966)
Address to Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries     189
The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy     194
The Class Struggles in Algeria     203
Contribution to a Councilist Program in Spain     213
Some Theoretical Topics That Need To Be Dealt With (Vaneigem)     220
Captive Words: Preface to a Situationist Dictionary (Khayati)     222
The Role of Godard     228
The Ideology of Dialogue     230
Interview with an Imbecile     233
The Algeria of Daniel Guerin, Libertarian     235
Domenach versus Alienation     237
(1967)
The Explosion Point of Ideology in China     240
Two Local Wars     251
Our Goals and Methods in the Strasbourg Scandal     263
The Situationists and the New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art (Vienet)     273
Aiming for Practical Truth (Vaneigem)     277
Setting Straight Some Popular Misconceptions About Revolutions in the Underdeveloped Countries (Khayati)     281
Minimum Definition of Revolutionary Organizations     285
Three Postscripts to the Previous Issue     286
(1969)
The Beginning of an Era     288
Reform and Counterreform in the Bureaucratic Bloc     326
How Not To Understand Situationist Books     336
Preliminaries on Councils and Councilist Organization (Riesel)     348
Notice to the Civilized Concerning Generalized Self-Management (Vaneigem)     363
The Conquest of Space in the Time of Power (Rothe)     371
The Latest Exclusions     374
The Elite and the Backward     377
Cinema and Revolution     378
The Organization Question for the SI (Debord)     380
Miscellaneous Publications
Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program (Canjuers & Debord, 1960)     387
For a Revolutionary Judgment of Art (Debord, 1961)     393
Theses on the Paris Commune (Debord, Kotanyi, Vaneigem, 1962)     398
The Situationists and the New Forms of Action in Politics and Art (Debord, 1963)     402
On the Poverty of Student Life (1966)     408
In Short (1965 & 1969)     430
May 1968 Documents
Communique     435
Watch Out for Manipulators! Watch Out for Bureaucrats!     435
Slogans To Be Spread Now by Every Means     436
Telegrams     437
Report on the Occupation of the Sorbonne     438
For the Power of the Workers Councils     442
Address to All Workers     443
Graffiti     445
Internal Texts
Provisional Statutes of the SI (1969)     461
Provisional Theses for the Discussion of New Theoretico-Practical Orientations in the SI (Salvadori, 1970)     464
Remarks on the SI Today (Debord, 1970)     468
Declaration (Debord, Riesel, Vienet, 1970)     474
Untitled Text (Debord, 1971)     476
Translator's Notes     479
Bibliography     493
The Blind Men and the Elephant     500
Index to Debord's the Society of the Spectacle     511
Index to Vaneigem's the Revolution of Everyday Life     512
Index     515