What Did the Situationists Achieve?

In this Trip episode, Nadia, Jem and Keir look back on the antics and manifestos of the socialist revolutionaries who gathered under the banner of the Situationist International.

The ACFM gang chart the SI’s influence on politics and media theory, from the central concept of the Spectacle during the ’68 uprisings to their lingering influence on pop music, psychogeography and political organising. Featuring ideas from Guy Debord, Mustapha Khayati and Raoul Vaneigem and music from the KLF, Sex Pistols and Negativland.

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Music: Sex Pistols – God Save the Queen / The Timelords – Doctoring the Tardis / The KLF – A Melody from a Past Life Keeps Dragging Me Back / Negativland – Don’t Don’t Get Freaked Out

Books and articles: Larry Law – Spectacular Times / Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle / Raoul Vaneigem – The Revolution of Everyday Life / Henri Lefebvre – The Production of Space / Plan C – We Are All Very Bored pamphlet / Mustapha Khayati – On the Poverty of Student Life / Nadia Idle – ‘Not Alone in the World’, Dazed magazine / Elizabeth Wilson – The Sphinx in the City / McKenzie Wark – The Beach Beneath the Street / Hari Kunzru – My Revolutions / Fred and Judy Vermorel – Sex Pistols: The Inside Story / The Invisible Committee – The Coming Insurrection

Films: Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973)