Category: Situationists

  • McKenzie Wark on the Situationists

    The media theorist and activist McKenzie Wark has published two books on the Situationists – The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International (2011) and The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages Out of the 20th Century (2013).

  • Baudrillard and the Situationists, by Alan N. Shapiro

    What are the similarities and differences between the Situationist theory of hyper-capitalism and consumerist media culture – the theory of “the society of the spectacle” – and Jean Baudrillard’s theory of image, media and consumer culture – the theory of simulation, simulacra, virtuality, hyper-reality, Integral Reality, and “the models and codes precede the real”?