Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and the revolutionary spirit

1. Introduction
	Guy Debord’s Masterwork
	Debord as the SI’s Main Archivist
	Debord’s Practice of Exclusion in Shaping the SI
	Including All Seventy SI Members in this Book
	Rationale for Summarizing the Contents of Internationale Situationniste
	Chapter Overviews
	A Review of the Scholarship about the SI
	Art History and the SI
	Film Studies and the SI
	Psychogeography and the Dérive
	Détournement
	The Spectacle
	The SI in (Though Mostly Absent from) Education
	Notes
2. Guy Debord, the Lettrists, and the Lettrist International, 1951–1957
	Debord’s Background
	Guy Debord Meets Isidore Isou and the Lettrists
	Debord Moves to Paris, Joins the Lettrists
	Mension and Papai
	Ivan Chtcheglov
	Michele Bernstein
	Treatise on Slime and Eternity
	Gil Wolman’s Film L’Anticoncept
	Howls in Favor of Sade
	Debord Splits from the Lettrists
	The Formation of the Lettrist International: Phase 1 (1952–1953)
	Ivan Chtcheglov’s “Formulary for a New Urbanism”
	Psychogeography and the Dérive
	“Theory of the Dérive”
	The End of the LI’s First Phase
	The Lettrist International, Phase 2 (1953–1957)
	Alexander Trocchi
	The LI Becomes More Politically Attuned
	The LI Becomes More Exclusive
	Chtcheglov’s Exclusion from the LI
	The LI Takes on a New Enemy: Urbanism
	Debord and Asger Jorn Meet
	Détournement
	A New Cartography: The Naked City
	Jorn & Debord’s Fin de Copenhague
	Now, the SI
	Notes
3. The SI’s First Phase, Part One, 1957–1958
	“One Step Back”
	Debord’s Exclusion of Gil Wolman
	The Founding of the Situationist International
	Debord’s Report on the Construction of Situations
	Dada and Surrealism
	The Spectacle
	Recuperation
	Democracy at Work in Cosio
	Debord’s Book Mémoires
	The “Sabotage in Cosio”
	The SI’s Second Conference, January 1958, Paris
	Hans Platschek and the Founding of the German Section of the SI
	The “Battle of Brussels”
	Gallizio’s Turin Exhibition of Industrial Painting
	The Guglielmi Affair, 1958
	Internationale Situationniste, Issue One, June 1958
	The Algerian War (1954–1962)
	Provocative Images of Young Women
	Debord’s Role in the SI’s First Year
	Notes
4. The SI’s First Phase, Part Two, 1958–1960
	Debord Persuades Constant to Become More Involved in the SI
	Jorn Recruits the Spur Group
	Debord’s Tape-Recorded Lecture at the Surrealist Event
	Internationale Situationniste, Issue Two, December 1958
	Spur Impresses Debord by Perpetrating a Scandal
	New Members and Another Exclusion
	The SI’s Third Conference, April 1959, Munich
	Debord Publishes Mémoires and Meets Jorn’s Brother, Jorgen Nash
	Debord Orchestrates a Convergence of Interventions in May 1959
	Constant’s New Babylon
	Jorn’s Modification Paintings
	Gallizio’s Cavern of Anti-Matter Exhibit
	Debord Criticizes Constant’s Forum Special Issue
	Debord Confides in Constant and Becomes More Critical of Gallizio
	Debord’s On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time
	Internationale Situationniste, Issue Three, December 1959
	Debord and Henri Lefebvre Meet in Early 1960
	The World as Labyrinth
	Debord Excludes Har Oudejans and Anton Alberts
	Debord Plans More Shake-Ups within the SI, and Gallizio Is Excluded
	Debord Recruits Attila Kotanyi
	Constant Resigns
	Notes
5. The SI’s First Phase, Part Three, 1960–1962
	The “Left Wing” and the “Right Wing” of the SI
	Debord Recruits Attila Kotanyi
	Jorn Recruits More Painters
	Issue Four of Internationale Situationniste, June 1960
	SI Member Andre Frankin’s Avant-Garde Play
	Debord’s Collaboration with Daniel Blanchard of Socialism or Barbarism
	Michele Bernstein’s Novelistic Détournement All the King’s Horses
	The SI’s Fourth Conference, September 1960, London
	Declaration of the 121
	Internationale Situationniste, Issue Five, December 1960
	Nash & the Spur Artists Perpetrate a Scandal and Make a Movie
	Raoul Vaneigem
	Raoul Vaneigem Meets Debord and Bernstein
	Vaneigem and Kotanyi
	Debord’s Third Film Critique of Separation
	Wyckaert Is Excluded, Spur Breaks with van de Loo
	Asger Jorn Resigns from the SI
	Debord Resigns from Socialism or Barbarism (SB)
	Debord’s Tape Recorded Lecture
	Spur Artists Seek Refuge from Legal Troubles at Nash’s Drakabygget Farm
	Internationale Situationniste, Issue Six, August 1961
	The SI’s Fifth Conference, August 1961, Gothenburg
	The Hamburg Theses
	Bernstein Publishes The Night, Her Second Novelistic Détournement
	Spur Artists Are Subjected to Legal Charges
	Spur #7
	The Exclusion of Spur & the Resignation of the Scandinavian Members
	The End of the SI’s First Phase
	Notes
6. The SI’s Second Phase, Part One, 1962–1966
	Internationale Situationniste, Issue Seven, April 1962
	The Second Situationist International
	The SI’s Sixth Conference, November 1962, Antwerp
	Internationale Situationniste, Issue Eight, January 1963
	Debord and the SI Split from Henri Lefebvre
	Debord Meets Alice Becker-Ho
	Rene Vienet
	Debord Meets with Zengakuren Members
	Destruction rsg-6, June 1963
	Attila Kotanyi & Peter Laugesen Are Excluded
	Abraham Moles (aka “Lil’ Head”)
	Internationale Situationniste, Issue Nine, August 1964
	Chtcheglov’s “Letters from Afar”
	Bernstein’s Article for the Times Literary Supplement
	Trocchi’s Exclusion
	Mustapha Khayati Contacts Debord
	JV Martin’s Arrest & His House Is Blown Up
	The SI’s First Attack on Abraham Moles (March 1965)
	Khayati and Debord’s “Address to Revolutionaries in Algeria and All Countries”
	Debord’s Article on the Watts Uprising
	Debord Broadens the SI’s Reach into the United Kingdom and the United States
	Internationale Situationniste, Issue Ten, March 1966
	The SI’s Seventh Conference, July 1966, Paris
	The Formation of the English Section of the SI
	Now, the SI
	Notes
7. The SI’s Second Phase, Part Two, 1966–1967
	Student Protests before the Strasbourg Scandal
	The Beginning of the Strasbourg Scandal
	On the Poverty of Student Life
	The Return of the Durutti Column
	Protests at the University of Strasbourg, Fall 1966
	The Garnautins
	The SI Becomes Infamous
	An American Section of the SI Begins to Take Shape46
	Bruce Elwell, Robert Chasse, and Tony Verlaan
	The English Section, David Wise, and Ben Morea
	Internationale Situationniste, Issue Eleven, October 1967
	Bernstein Resigns in Late 1967
	The Society of the Spectacle and The Revolution of Everyday Life
	Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle
	Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life
	Vaneigem Travels to New York City
	The Exclusion of the SI’s English Section
	The SI Moves on from Strasbourg to Nanterre
	Notes
8. The SI’s Second Phase, Part Three, 1967–1968
	Nanterre University, 1967–1968
	The SI’s Initial Presence at Nanterre University
	Daniel Cohn-Bendit Becomes the Recognized Leader of the Radical Students
	Riesel and the Enragés Contact Debord
	Nanterre University, January to Early May, 1968
	Students Arrested at the Sorbonne (May 2–6)
	The Enragés and Other Radicals Occupy the Sorbonne (May 6)
	More Violent Clashes (May 7 to 9)
	The First “Night of the Barricades” (May 10)
	The Sorbonne Occupied Again (May 14)
	Worker Occupations of Factories (May 14–17)
	The Council for the Maintenance of Occupations, aka the CMDO (May 17 to Mid-June)
	More Wildcat Strikes and Ten Million People Stop Working (May 18–29)
	De Gaulle’s May 30 Speech, Which Ends May ’68
	The SI and Enragés Leave Paris
	Rene Vienet’s Book about May ’68
	Naïve Dreamers
	Notes
9. The SI’s Third Phase, 1968–1972
	Fame and New Members in the French Section after May ’68
	The Formation of the American Section
	The Formation of the SI’s Italian Section
	The Return of Charles Fourier: The French Section’s Last Public Action
	The Italian and American Sections Publish Their Own Journals
	Debord Begins to Have Doubts about the SI’s French Section
	Debord Steps down as Editor of Internationale Situationniste
	Internationale Situationniste, Issue Twelve, September 1969
	The SI’s Eighth (and Final) Conference, September 1969, Venice
	Exclusion of Alain Chevalier and Debord’s Hard Line about Participation
	After Venice, Vaneigem Felt that the SI was a “Dead Movement”
	“Is the Reichstag Burning?”
	The Orientation Debate Becomes the Means for Weakening the SI
	The Resignation of Patrick Cheval
	The Exclusions of Chasse and Elwell, Decided in Wolsfeld and Trier
	Tensions Mount in the Italian Section, Leading to More Exclusions
	Beaulieu’s Resignation
	Debord’s “Remarks on the SI Today”
	Salvadori’s Exclusion
	Verlaan and Horelick Respond to Debord
	Debord, Vienet, and Riesel Form a Tendency Aimed at Vaneigem
	Vaneigem’s Letter of Resignation (November 14, 1970)
	Horelick and Verlaan Are Excluded, Ending the American Section
	Debord’s Response to Vaneigem’s Resignation
	Sebastiani’s “Resignation”
	The Last Departures
	The Last Months of the Situationist International
	Debord’s Masterwork: The Situationist International
	Notes
10. On the Passage of Guy Debord’s Life after the Situationist International, 1972–1994
	Asger Jorn’s Death
	Michele Bernstein and Ralph Rumney Get Married
	The Film The Society of the Spectacle
	Champot
	Ingirum imus nocte et consumimur igni
	Arles
	The Assassination of Gerard Lebovici
	Considerations on the Assassination of Gerard Lebovici
	Editions Gerard Lebovici and Debord’s The Game of War Board Game
	Debord’s Comments on The Society of the Spectacle
	The ICA’s Traveling Museum Exhibition about the SI
	Leaving Editions Gerard Lebovici
	Debord’s Last Years
	Guy Debord: His Art and His Times
	Notes
Appendix 1: Membership of the Situationist International
	Notes
Appendix 2: The Return of the Durutti Column
	Introduction
	Notes
Appendix 3: Delirium: Ivan Chtcheglov’s Last Dérive
Appendix 4: Chronology of the Lettrist International and the Situationist International
	1951
	1952
	1953
	1954
	1955
	1956
	1957
	1958
	1959
	1960
	1961
	1962
	1963
	1964
	1965
	1966
	1967
	1968
	1969
	1970
	1971
	1972
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