BASIC BANALITIES
A brief History of the Situationist International

Bibliography

Association Federative generale des etudiants de Strasburg. - "De la misére en milieu Ètudiant, considere sous ses aspects economique, sexuel et notamment intellectuel et de quelques moyens pour y remedier", AFGES, Strasbourg 1966. Reprinted by Champ Libre, Paris 1977. English transalation by the Situationist International (english section) as Of Student Poverty, considered in its Economic, Psychological, Political, Sexual and particulary Intellectual aspects, and a modest proposal for its remedy, Ten Days that shook University, SI, London. Also available in Ken Knabb's Anthology.

Atkins, Guy - Asger Jorn, The Crucial Years: 1954-1964 Lund Humphries, London, 1977

Bandini, Mirella - L'Estetico/Il Politico, da Cobra all'Internazionale Situazionista 1948-1957 Officina Edizioni, Rome, 1977

Barrot, Jean - What is Situationism: Critique of the Situationist International, Unpopular Books, London 1987.

Bernstein, Michele - About the Situationist International, the Times Literary Supplement, No. 3262, 3 September 1964, p. 781.

__Eloge de Pinot Gallizio Ed. Notizie, Torino 1958. Text on Gallizio Industrial Painting published in the catalogue of the exhibition at the Notizie Gallery, Torino.

Berreby, Gerard (ed.) - 1948-1957: Documents relatifs á la fondation de l'Internationale Situationiste, Allia, Paris 1985. A collection of lots of originals material relative to the groups that will later merge in the SI, including the reproduction of some texts from Reflex, Ion, Ur,Internationale Lettriste and Eristica

Blazwick, Iwona (ed.) - An Endless Adventure... an endless passion... an endless banquet, ICA/Verso, London 1989. Catalogue accompaning the travelling exhibition On the Passage of a few people through a brief period of time held at the ICA in 1989. (Also Paris 1989 and Boston 1990, each with its own catalogue). Negative comments on the exhibition are in Debord's Cette mauvais reputation... and in Dumontier's.

Caute, David - 68:The Year of the Barricades, Hamish Hamilton, London 1988

Cobra 1948-1951 - Fac-simile collection of the magazine. Ed. Jean-Michel Place, Paris 1980

Debord, Guy - Rapport sur la construction des situations et sur les conditions de l'organisation et de l'action de la tendance situationniste internationale self edited, Paris, June 1957. Preparatory note of the founding Conference of Cosio d'Arroscia. Translated in italian by Pinot-Gallizio. Reproduced in Bandini's and Berreby's.

__La societe du spectacle, - Buchet-Chastel, Paris 1967, and ed. Champ Libre, Paris 1972. English translation as The Society of the Spectacle, Black & Red, Detroit, 1977.

__Ouvres cinematographiques completes: 1952-1978, ed. Champ Libre, Paris 1972. complete collection of the script of Guy Debord's films. Two scripts, On the passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Period of Time and Critique of Separation are translated in Ken Knabb's Anthology.

__Preface a la quatrieme edition italienne de La Societe du Spectacle, ed. Champ Libre, Paris 1979. English translation by F.Parker and M. Forsyth as Preface to the Fourth Italian Edition of The Society of the Spectacle, Chronos, London, 1979.

__Considerations sur l'assasination de Gerard Lebovici, ed. Gerard Lebovici, Paris, 1985.

__Commentaires sur la Societe du Spectacle, ed. Gérard Lebovici, Paris, 1988. English translation by malcom Imrie as Comments of the Society of the Spectacle, Verso, London, 1991.

__Panegyrique I, ed. Gérard Lebovici, Paris, 1989.First part of Debord's autobiography

__Cette mauvais réputation... Gallimard, Paris 1993. The book is an analysis of all the press allegations against the author made in France between 1988 and 1992, which starded with the assassination under misterious circumstances of Gerard Lebovici, author and friend of Debord.

Debord, Guy and Jorn, Asger - Fin de Copenhague, Le Bahaus Imaginiste, Permild & Rosengreen, Copenaghen 1957. Work of 'detourned writing', 200 copies were printed. Reproduced in colour by Berreby and partially in black and white in Bandini.

__Memoires Internationale Situationniste, Permild & Rosengreen, Copenaghen 1959. Experimental book with sandpaper cover. Partially reproduced in Marcus' Berreby's and Bandini's

Dumontier, Pascal - Le Situationnistes et mai '68. Theorie et pratique de la revolution (1966-1972) ed. Gerard Lebovici, Paris, 1990

Fišera, Vladimir - Writing on the Wall, France, May 1968: A documentary Anthology, Allison & Busby, london, 1978

Gray, Christopher - Leaving the Twentieth Century: The Incomplete work of the Situationist International, Free Fall Press, London, 1974.

Home, Stewart - The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War, Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, London 1988.

Internationale Situationiste - Internationale Situationiste fac-simile edition of the 12 numbers of the omonimous magazine. ed. Gerard Lebovici, Paris.
Italian translation: Internazionale Situazionista 1958-69, Nautilus, Torino 1994. English translation of some of the texts in Ken Knabb's Anthology __La veritable scission dans l'Internationale - Circulaire publique de l'Internationale Situationniste (written by Guy Debord and Gianfranco Sanguinetti, the sole member of the SI at that point), ed. Champ Libre, Paris 1972. English translation as The veritable Split in the International, Chronos, London, 1990.
Note that the title is a detournement of a Marx's text at the moment of the rupture with the anarchist at the time of the First International

Isou, Isidore - Introduction á une nouvelle póesie et une nouvelle musique Gallimard, Paris 1947

Jorn, Asger (Jorgensen) - Pour la Forme - Ebauche d'une méthodologie des arts Internationale Situationniste, Paris 1958. Collection of writings published between 1953 - 1957.

__Les jardin de Albisola Pozzi, Torino, 1974. With a preface by Guy Debord. __Also see Debord, Guy

Knabb, Ken - Situationist International Anthology, Bureau of Public Secrets, Berkeley, 1981.

Lambert, Jean Clarence - Cobra un art libre Chene/Hachette, Paris, 1983

Lefebvre, Henry-Francois - Introduction a la critique de la vie quotidienne Grasset, Paris 1947.

Les Levres Nues 1954-1958 - fac-simile edition, Plasma, Paris 1978

Luther Blissett - Guy Debord é morto per davvero Quaderni operativi, CRASH edizioni, Feltre (BL), Italy, 1995.

Marcus, Greil - "Lipstick Traces, A secret history of the 20th century"Secker & Warburg Ltd, London 1989 (History of the cultural underground spacing from Dada to Punk, from 1400 heretics to lettrism. most of the links though are arbitrarely or obviously distorted)

Martos, Jean-François - - Histoire de l'Interntionale Situationniste ed. Gerard Lebovici, Paris, 1989

Plant, Sadie - The most radical gesture. the Situationist International in a postmodern age, Routledge, London 1972

__The Situationist International, a case of spectacular neglet, in Radical Philosophy 55, Summer 1990, pp. 3-10

Potlatch 1954-1957 - complete fac-simile edition, ed. Gérard Lebovici, Paris, 1985

Raspaud, Jean-Jacques and Voyer, Jean-Pierre - L'Internationale Situationniste: protagonistes, chronologies, bibliographie (avec un index des noms insultés) ed. Champ Libre, Paris 1971

Robertson, George - The Situationist International: its Penetration into British Culture, Block 14, 1988, pp. 38-54

Sanguinetti, Gianfranco - Rapporto Veridico sulle oppurtunitá di salvare il Capitalismo in Italia, Ugo Mursia, Milano 1975. Writing under the pseudonymom of Censor, Sanguinetti analisys of the State and allegation that the State itself was behind the Piazza Fontana bombing, (then blamed onto the anarchists) was taken very seriously at very high level. The impression was that if he knew so much he must have been an insider.
Translated in french by Guy Debord as Véridique Rapport sur les Derniéres Chances de Sauver le Capitalisme en Italie, ed. Champ Libre, Paris 1976.

__Del Terrorismo e dello Stato, la teoria e la pratica del terrorismo per la prima volta divulgata, Self edited, Milano 1979.

Stokvis, Willemijn - COBRA. An International Movement in Art after the Second World War Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 1987

Vague, Tom - The Twentieth Century and how to leave it: the Boy Scout's Guide to the Situationist International, Vague 16/17, 1988, pp. 13-46

Vaneigem, Raoul - Traité de savoir-vivre a l'usage des jeunes générations, Gallimard, Paris 1967. English translation by john Fullerton and Paul Sieveking as The Revolution of Everyday Life, Rising Free Collective, London 1979, and Donald Nicholson-Smith, n.p., Left Bank Books and Rebel Press, 1983.

Viénet, René - Enragés et Situationnistes dans le mouvement des occupations, Gallimard, Paris 1968. Translated as The Enragés and Situationists in the Occupation Mouvement, May-June 1968, Tiger Papers Pubblications, York, 1968. Also by Semiotext(e), New York, 1990.




ARCHIVES
Numerous documents (letters, flyposters, relations, etc..) produced by the SI or concerning its activities are collected in the following archives:

1. Bibliotheque de Documentation internationale contemporaine, Nanterre, France

2. Institut International d'Histoire Sociale, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

3. Archivio Pinot Gallizio, Alba, Italy.


ELECTRONIC ARCHIVES
Apart form various BBS, Internet archives are gradually building up a good number of situationist texts.

1. Spunk Press - is a british-based electronic archive of anarchist and related material.

2. Nothingness.org - an american-based pro-situ site, self-styled: 'SI Home Page'



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