50 YEARS OF RECUPERATION OF THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL

McKenzie Wark

The influence of the Situationist International (SI) is writ large across our contemporary cultural landscape. Formed in 1957 as a merger of four European avant-garde groups, the SI would over the next decade introduce many key intellectual and artistic concepts, including the society of the spectacle, pyschogeography, unitary urbanism, and at least one major work of critical and utopian architecture in Constant's New Babylon: City for Another Life. In 50 Years of Recuperation McKenzie Wark, the critically acclaimed author of A Hacker Manifesto, explores how our contemporary understanding of art, politics, and even reality itself has been shaped by these original culture jammers.

2008 / 80 pp / 26 color + 18 b/w ill. / 978-1-56898-789-7 / hc / $24.95