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With and Against - the Situationist International in the Age of Automation (Paperback)
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No other art movement has so profoundly influenced radical politics
as the Situationist International. But beyond the clichés about
its purported leader Guy Debord, the "society of the spectacle,"
détournement and dérive, lies a more complex story about key
historical shifts in the composition of capital, work, labor, art,
and revolutionary theory during the 1950s and 60s. With and Against
reframes the history of the Situationist International as a
struggle to come to terms with the then-emerging ideologies of
cybernetics and automation. Through each of the book's four
chapters, Dominique Routhier dissects Situationist pamphlets,
documents, artworks, and objects that refract elements of a
"cybernetic hypothesis": the theoretically hyperbolic belief that
technological progress, computers and automation make class
struggle and the idea of revolution obsolete. With equal attention
to aesthetic detail and to the broader contours of political
economy, this book serves as a critical intervention in art history
as well a call to reconsider, more broadly, the contemporary
lessons of the most political of all artistic avantgardes.
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