Tag Archives: Situationist International

Formulary for a New Urbanism

SIRE, I AM FROM THE OTHER COUNTRY

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the latest [...]

Review: Michèle Bernstein’s All the King’s Horses

There has been yet another resurgence of interest in the early work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International (1957-72) recently. Fortunately, this has lead to the publication of Michèle Bernstein’s novel from 1960, All the King’s Horses by Semiotext(e). Bernstein is known primarily amongst Situationist aficionados as Debord’s wife for over fifteen years and [...]