With and Against (eBook)

the Situationist International in the Age of Automation

Dominique Routhier (Autor)

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2023 | Ebook UK & RoW
272 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-80429-256-3 (ISBN)

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No other art movement has so profoundly influenced radical politics as the Situationist International. But beyond the clich,s about its purported leader Guy Debord, the "e;society of the spectacle,"e; d,tournement and d,rive, lies a more complex story about key historical shifts in the composition of capital, work, labor, art, and revolutionary theory during the 1950s and 60s.With and Against reframes the history of the Situationist International as a struggle to come to terms with the then-emerging ideologies of cybernetics and automation. Through each of the book's four chapters, Dominique Routhier dissects Situationist pamphlets, documents, artworks, and objects that refract elements of a "e;cybernetic hypothesis"e;: the theoretically hyperbolic belief that technological progress, computers and automation make class struggle and the idea of revolution obsolete. With equal attention to aesthetic detail and to the broader contours of political economy, this book serves as a critical intervention in art history as well a call to reconsider, more broadly, the contemporary lessons of the most political of all artistic avantgardes.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.10.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Aaron Benanav • Abraham Moles • accelerationism • Aesthetics • Alexander Galloway • Algeria • André Breton • Anselm Jappe • Antagonism • ART • Artificial Intelligence • Asger Jorn • Automation • Automaton • avant-garde • Bauhaus • Boom • Claire Bishop • Class struggle • Claude Lefort • Colonization • communism • Computers • contemporary Art • control and communication • Copenhagen • Cornelius Castoriadis • Crisis • critique • Cybernetic Hypothesis • Cybernetics • Dada • Decolonization • Denmark • endnotes • Everyday life • Fragment on Machines • France • Futures • Graffiti • Guy Debord • Hal Foster • Jaleh Mansoor • James Boggs • Jason Smith • Joshua Clover • Justin Joque • Kristin Ross • Labor • Left communism • lettrism • machines • Marx • Marxism • May 68 • McKenzie Wark • Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen • modern art • modernism • Modernization • Mustafa Khayati • Nicolas Schöffer • Norbert Wiener • october • Paris • Paris Biennale • Political Economy • postwar • Revolution • Riot • Robert Kurz • robots • Rosa Luxemburg • Scandinavia • Situationism • Situationist International • Smart Machines • Socialism or Barbarism • society of the spectacle • Spectacle • Surrealism • theory • Tiqqun • TJ Clark • Tom McDonough • Ultragauche • Ultraleft • Value • value-form • Warren Shannon • Wertkritik • Work
• ISBN-10: 1-80429-256-7 / 1804292567
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80429-256-3 / 9781804292563