The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages Out of the 20th Century
McKenzie Wark
Language: English
Pages: 233
ISBN: 2:00256558
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International up until the late sixties, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark returns with a companion volume which puts the late work of the Situationists in a broader and deeper context, charting their contemporary relevance and their deep critique of modernity. Wark builds on their work to map the historical stages of the society of the spectacle, from the diffuse to the integrated to what he calls the disintegrating spectacle. The Spectacle of Disintegration takes the reader through the critique of political aesthetics of former Situationist T.J. Clark, the Fourierist utopia of Raoul Vaneigem, René Vienet’s earthy situationist cinema, Gianfranco Sangunetti’s pranking of the Italian ruling class, Alice-Becker Ho’s account of the anonymous language of the Romany, Guy Debord’s late films and his surprising work as a game designer.
At once an extraordinary counter-history of radical praxis and a call to arms in the age of financial crisis and the resurgence of the streets, The Spectacle of Disintegration recalls the hidden journeys taken in the attempt to leave the twentieth century, and plots an exit from the twenty first.
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Bit. The integrated spectacle still relied on centralized means of organizing and distributing the spectacle, run by a culture industry in command of the means of producing its images. The disintegrating spectacle chips away at centralized means of producing images and distributes this responsibility among the spectators themselves. While the production of goods is out-sourced to various cheap labor countries, the production of images is in-sourced to unpaid labor, offered up in what was once.
Bestowing mercy fucks on the sick and infirm. Excommunication remains the ultimate sanction. Membership in any court is voluntary on both sides. Fourier thought that if everyone had their minimum sexual needs meet without unnecessary anxiety, it would prompt desires for new kinds of platonic love. Young people in Fourier’s world could choose to be bacchantes, or they could choose to be vestals. While the vestals withhold their bodies, it isn’t as a sacrifice. In any case, certain lapses are.
By Tu Guangqi (1914–80) called The Crush (1972) and recasts its struggle between vicious warlords and oppressed villagers as a struggle within the left between Stalinists and Situationists by dubbing in new dialogue in French. Meaghan Morris: “Tu came after World War Two from Shanghai to Hong Kong, where he made cultural nationalist Mandarin language films; a right-winger who worked for the Asian Film Company, established in 1953 with American money, Tu helped remake and reinterpret—indeed.
Called The Emperor’s New Clothes. Ryckmans was a Belgian sinologist who taught for many years in Australia, where one of his former students would even go on to become prime minister. Writing as Simon Leys, he became the Orwell of the east, the first westerner with a real working knowledge of Chinese society to publicize the violence and terror of the Maoist state. For there is another sixties, the sixties of anti-colonial struggle. While the Situationists had been committed to the anti-colonial.
Discretion 1 New York Times, September 21, 2004. 2 Becker-Ho, The Princes of Jargon, p. 41; J. Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1984, p. 10. 3 See Jonathon Green, “Romany Rise,” Critical Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3, 1999. 4 Becker-Ho, The Princes of Jargon, p. 153. 5 Christopher Hitchens, Unacknowledged Legislators: Writers in the Public Sphere, Verso, London, 2000, pp. 3–9. 6 Becker-Ho, The Princes of Jargon, p. 67. 7 Alice Becker-Ho, The Essence of.