Playing at Museum Jorn “So what really is the situation? It’s the realisation of a better game, which more exactly is provoked by the human presence. The revolutionary gamesters of all countries can be united in the Situationist International to commence the emergence from the prehistory of everyday life.” –
Playing with Power ‘The proletarian revolution is that critique of human geography through which individuals and communities will begin constructing places and events suitable for the re-appropriation not only of their labour, but also of their total history. By virtue of the resulting mobile spaces of play, and by virtue of freely chosen variations in the rules of the game, the autonomy of place and the authenticity of life will…
Éirinn go Brách! “When the hour of the social revolution at length strikes and the revolutionary lava now pent up in the Socialist movement finally overflows and submerges the kings and classes who now rule and ruin the world, high up in the topmost niches of the temple a liberated human race will erect to the heroes and martyrs who have watered the tree of liberty with the blood of…
Fada beo an Cabhlach Poblachtach “The Irish question is not simply a nationality question, but a question of land and existence. Ruin or revolution is the watchword; all Irish are convinced that if anything is to happen at all it must happen quickly. The English should demand separation and leave it to the Irish themselves to decide the question of landownership. Everything else would be useless. The domination of Ireland…
The Harsh Rules of the Game “The new epoch is profoundly revolutionary, and it knows that it is. At all levels of world society, we can no longer and we will no longer go on as before. The Situationists are here to combat the spectacle, not to govern it. They do not form a distinct party. The Situationists have no interests separate from the proletariat as a whole. They have…
Power Play in the Tropics “The active phase of a coup is like a military operation – only more so. If the general principle of tactics is the application of force at the right place, the coup achieves this with surgical precision by striking at the organisational heart of the whole state; if speed is often important in military operations, in the coup it is an essential requirement. But the…
