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The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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Situationism and the post-conflict city will the subject of a talk given by the CMR's Dr. 'We demand games with great seriousness', that is the core essence of my research, can we still play (or were we ever able) to play with seriousness? According to Simon Sadler, author of "The Situationist City," the Situationists argued that professional architecture had led to "a sterilization of the world that threatened to wipe out any sense of spontaneity or playfulness. David Pinder's Visions of the City (2005) takes a primarily Situationist look at the city and discusses détournement, the dérive and their cartography in depth. Considering the search for meaningful engagement in a society that feels increasingly fragmented, certain aspects of Situationist theory are more topical than ever. In my final year in graduate school I learned about a group called the Situationist International and I became fascinated with their imaginative imagery that drew from architecture and art. 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. Stanza artwork image The Situationist City. Though I missed out on the Situationist art movement, the notion that I gather of it has always struck a certain chord with me, especially in regards to Detroit. The city would become a giant playground, its quarters acting as stations for a perpetual Revolutionary Festival. David Pinder's Visions of the City and Jonathan Raban's Soft City. Last month, Rick Montgomery wrote an interesting article, “Behavioral Economics Is Moving from Theory to Policy,” for the Kansas City Star. The Situationist movement emerged as a critique of capitalism in 1957 and played a key role in the May 1968 uprising in Paris. The situationists were concerned with expressing their desires and the desires of the city, embracing play and rejecting work, creating 'situations' in which one could engage with the city as flux – an ever changing event. Robert Porter at the Huston School of Film and Digital Media in Galway on the 13th September. Posted by The Situationist Staff on January 5, 2009. Situationists wanted to convert the interest of play with new at ideas the level. This week predominantly involved us working on our essay which was due on Friday while also keeping our event ideas in the back of our mind. The Situationist International, led by Guy Debord and central to the Paris uprising in May 1968, published many incendiary texts on politics and art in the journal Internationale Situationniste. His publications study the architectural ideas of the Archigram group, the Situationists, and other experimental practices.