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The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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The Situationist movement emerged as a critique of capitalism in 1957 and played a key role in the May 1968 uprising in Paris. Posted by The Situationist Staff on January 5, 2009. The book was reviewed by Edwin Heathcote, John Green, Karl Whitney, Resonant City, Gwen Webber, Peter D. The Situationists and the City, edited by Tom McDonough, was published last year by Verso (Amazon). Connected drift is based on the situationist technic of the psychogeographic walk in which chance and the surrounding environment itself determines the route taken. (from the amazon blurb: "Simon Sadler searches for the Situationist City among the detritus of tracts, manifestos, and works of art that the SI left behind. This is because of how much your streets are an extension of capitalism. 'Allure' is an experiment in SITUATIONIST CINEMA. For the Situationists, your city was there to be misused, to be detourned. The book is divided into three parts. Though I missed out on the Situationist art movement, the notion that I gather of it has always struck a certain chord with me, especially in regards to Detroit. Wark notes also the breakdown of divisions between subject and exteriority, incorporating a collective experience of the city as “psychogeography”. Last month, Rick Montgomery wrote an interesting article, “Behavioral Economics Is Moving from Theory to Policy,” for the Kansas City Star.