{"title":"Situationist International","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"de-la-misere-en-milieu-etudiant","title":"De la misère en milieu étudiant","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Nous pouvons affirmer, sans grand risque de nous tromper, que l’étudiant en France est, après le policier et le prêtre, l’être le plus universellement méprisé.” [We can say, without much risk of being mistaken, that the student in France is, after the policeman and the priest, the most universally despised being]. Thus begins the militant Situationist pamphlet distributed on 22 November 1966 at the official inauguration of the University Palace in Strasbourg. Written by social critic Mustapha Khayati, titled by philosopher Guy Debord, and published under the auspices of the Situationist International, “De la misère en milieu étudiant” [On the Poverty of Student Life] delivered a radical critique of the university and of student organizations, trade unions, political institutions, and consumer society at large. In their place, it advocated revolutionary action, the abolition of hierarchical relations, and democracy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first edition was published in Strasbourg in 1966 after five pro-Situationist students used university funds to finance its production and distribution. The ensuing scandal led to their suspension and expulsion. Widely reprinted in 1967, the pamphlet circulated far beyond Strasbourg and became an important precursor to the ideas and practices that shaped the events of May 1968. Halfway through the book, this edition features a double-page comic spread that distills the pamphlet in eleven graphic vignettes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54425680380243,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/delamisere.png?v=1785247986"},{"product_id":"destruktion-af-rsg-6-danger-official-secret-destruction-of-the-rsg-6","title":"Destruktion af RSG-6 [Danger! Official Secret, destruction of the RSG-6)]","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eDestruktion af RSG-6\u003c\/em\u003e was a collective avant-garde exhibition organized by the Situationist International (SI) at Galerie EXI in Odense, Denmark, from June 22 to July 7, 1963. Curated by J.V. Martin in collaboration with Guy Debord and Michèle Bernstein, the project took its title from a British anti-nuclear pamphlet and was conceived through three metaphorical environments: shelter, revolt, and exhibition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe principal manifesto, “The Situationists and the New Forms of Action in Politics and Art”, was translated into several languages and articulated the SI’s insistence on an inseparable relationship between social transformation and cultural practice, while affirming the capacity of art to confront and contest political structures:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The situationist movement comprises three things: it is an artistic avant-garde, it seeks through experimentation to find the way to the human being's free arrangement of his daily life, and finally, it cooperates with the practical and theoretical erection of a new revolutionary contest.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe manifesto further argues that cultural creativity and social transformation must advance together, while explicitly rejecting the subordination of art to political doctrine. As the Situationists stated, their call for a unified conception of art and politics “absolutely does not mean that we recommend conformity of art to politics.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe importance of this publication lies in its exceptional status within the history of the Situationist International: it is associated with what is generally regarded as the SI’s only collective exhibition staged in a conventional gallery context. The present copy, bearing a Copenhagen postmark, was sent to the Dutch collector Tjeerd Deelstra in 1963.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54639149318483,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4481.png?v=1787231056"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/situationist-international.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}