art, sex & revolution: the situationist international and may '68
singing petrified conditions their own tune,
albeit out of key (add us on facebook)
sfsu experimental college, fall 2010
Democracy is the dictatorship of money. College of law, Madrid, Spain. S-29 General Strike.
A threesome with one man and two women. We watch them making love with our eyes, bodies and minds simultaneously. “je t’aime passionnément” is an audio&visual rhythm manifesto experiment, blending the poetry of Gherasim Luca, the Romanian Surrealist theorist and poet, with vintage erotica footage from 1935. WARNING: MATURE CONTENT (+18)
je t’aime passionnément
Video footage: unknown (France, 1925) - public domain
Available via deltaofvenus[.]com
Audio: Gherasim Luca, Passionnément (Hache/littérature)
As aired by Radio France’s Atelier de Creation Radiophonique 04.12.2005 (additionnal music by Colleen)
Creative Commons 3.0 License
Thus the spectacle’s instruction and the spectators’ ignorance are wrongly seen as antagonistic factors when in fact they give birth to each other. In the same way, the computer’s binary language is an irresistable inducement to the continual and unreserved acceptance of what has been programmed according to the wishes of someone else and passes for the timeless source of a superior, impartial, and total logic… Thus it is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are still unable to read, for reading demands making judgements at every line; and is the only access to the wealth of pre-spectacular human experience. Conversation is almost dead, and soon too will be those who knew how to speak.
—Guy Debord, 1988
The sham spectacular struggles between rival forms of separate power are at the same time real, in that they express the system’s uneven and conflictual development and the more or less contradictory interests of the classes or sections of classes that accept that system and strive to carve out a role for themselves within it. Just as the development of the most advanced economies involves clashes between different priorities, totalitarian state-bureaucratic forms of economic management and countries under colonialism or semicolonialism also exhibit highly divergent types of production and power. By invoking any number of different criteria, the spectacle can present these oppositions as totally distinct social systems. But in reality they are nothing but particular sectors whose fundamental essence lies in the global system that contains them, the single movement that has turned the whole planet into its field of operation: capitalism.
—Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle 56.
Situationist graffiti. Culture is the inversion of life
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
