The Situationist City. Simon Sadler

The Situationist City


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The Situationists' focus on the city has been central to McDonough's choice of documents. Sadler, Simon, 1998, The Situationist City, The MIT Press I picked this book because cities are interesting to me and I'd like to learn more about theories and movements to do with living in city, urbanism, utopia and the like. The situationists were are radical group of artists, theorists and activists, mainly in Paris in the '60s. Psychogeography: Situationist Reconnaissance for Revolution: Part 1. The latest addition to Mark Shepherd's Sentient City Survival Kit packages up the best lessons of the Situationists into a handy psychogeographical iPhone App. During its short period of existence, the Situationists' ideas had a great impact on the revolution of May 1968 and this historical event made them recognisable in various circles. The city would become a giant playground, its quarters acting as stations for a perpetual Revolutionary Festival. 3:AM: I think you say in The Spectacle of Disintegration that détournement is perhaps the Situationists' greatest strategic legacy, but I wonder whether you'd agree that the dérive is a useful strategy for negotiating the networked environment, or what you called the One is the internet itself which was a kind of wild west area, and the other was about networking together across various cities, we'd travel around and visit each other and form temporary associations. Invited speakers include Simon Sadler, author of "The Situationist City". Backpost on Space, Tom McDonough “Situationist Space”. Diverse By taking dérives across neighbourhoods of the city, the drifters capture their emotions for the terrain with photos, verses or collages on a map, which eventually represent their psychology and for that reason the outcome is called 'psychogeographic map' (e.g. This analysis begins by looking at Debord's Naked City map of Paris, defined by a psychogeographical space that is linked by 'unity of atmosphere'. 'Allure' is an experiment in SITUATIONIST CINEMA. €�The benign professionalism of architecture and design had, in their opinion [situationists], led to a sterilization of the world that threatened to wipe out any sense of spontaneity and playfulness. He seeks to redefine notions of the Situationists' urban critique, arguing that instead it persisted throughout the group's duration.