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The Situationist International were a group of anti-authoritarian,
highly cultured, revolutionary artists whose energy and enragement
fundamentally shaped the revolutions of the late 1960's, most
famously in Paris in May '68. They took on their shoulders the
history of the workers' struggle, saw that it had been corrupted by
authoritarianism and transformed it, with influences incorporating
the avant-garde via Dada and Surrealism. They were not
Marxologists, defenders of the faith. Marxism came back to life in
their raging analyses, the use of the 'spectacle' and at the heart
of the project was the idea of the constructed situation. This book
by Frances Stracey offers itself up as the 'first historiography of
constructed situations'. Within it are new insights into the
movement, and with them, a sense of relevance to political
situations and practice today. As an archivist, Stracey uncovered
new documents which, amongst other things, revealed how the SI
related to representations of sexuality; and is able to discuss
whether they could be considered as feminists or not. She also
looked at their famous motto 'Never Work' and again shows how
alienated labour is even more relevant to us today. Constructed
Situations is not a history of celebrated personalities, or
cultural influences, or political circumstances. It is instead an
open door to one of the most influential art movements in modern
history, and an invitation for us to reclaim inspiration from this
ubiquitous movement.
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