Shukaitis, Stevphen (2014) ‘Theories are made only to die in the war of time’: Guy Debord and the Situationist International as strategic thinkers. Culture and Organization, 20 (4). pp. 251-268. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2012.754223
Shukaitis, Stevphen (2014) ‘Theories are made only to die in the war of time’: Guy Debord and the Situationist International as strategic thinkers. Culture and Organization, 20 (4). pp. 251-268. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2012.754223
Shukaitis, Stevphen (2014) ‘Theories are made only to die in the war of time’: Guy Debord and the Situationist International as strategic thinkers. Culture and Organization, 20 (4). pp. 251-268. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2012.754223
Abstract
The Situationist International (SI) has been one of the main reference points during the past 40 or more years within social movement organizing, cultural studies, social theory and philosophy. While the SI has been understood in many ways as inheritors and elaborators of an unorthodox Marxist politics drawing heavily from the history of the avant-garde, relatively little attention has been paid to the specifically strategic dimension of their thought and practice. This is surprising, especially in Debord's case, given how much his work also draws from the history of military strategy. This paper will particularly examine the strategic aspects of Debord and the SI's thought and politics and how they rethink the nature of strategy through collective forms of aesthetic-political practice. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | avant-garde; Guy Debord; Situationist International; politics of aesthetics; social movements; strategy |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2013 13:06 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 16:49 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/5967 |