A (Post) Situationist, (Pre) Situationist Aesthetics
Fulton A Lecture Theatre, 6pm (Friday 8th June)
McKenzie Wark
The New School for Social Research
There can of course be no such thing as a Situationist
aesthetics, there can only be one that anticipates the realization and
overcoming of the aesthetic into everyday life. Hence our topic is necessarily
Pre-Situationist aesthetics. The particular examples I want to talk about are
Debord's films of the 70s: Society of the Spectacle and Refutation of All
Judgements. Based on interviews with Debord's film editor, I will talk about
the process by which these films were made, but also how they are something
more than theory texts illustrated with détourned images. There's a critical
logic to the editing as well. These films were of course made after the
dissolution of the Situationist International, and so in that sense are
post-Situationist. This presentation is part of a work in progress called The
Spectacle of Disintegration, to be published by Verso in March 2013.
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