GRAFFITI FOUND
Graffiti found in London at the beginning of the 1970s:
SAME THINGS DAY AFTER DAY
TUBE-WORK-DINNER-WORK-TUBE-ARMCHAIR-T.V.-SLEEP-TUBE-WORK
HOW MUCH MORE CAN YOU TAKE
ONE IN FIVE CRACKS UP
And today? Well, things haven't changed so much:
ARCHWAY 2006
posted by paddington at 10:23 AM
2 Comments:
I discovered Marx via Debord and the Situationists, which is probably an arse-about-face way of doing things. But you are right - there is much abstraction in situationism, and it can be difficult to grasp anything concrete from it. I guess this is reflected in the type of revolution which the SI and its colleagues generated: Paris 1968.
A proper Marxist critique of Debord is indeed needed. I won't promise it will happen immediately, but when I get a chance, I shall get my book (and video) of Society of the Spectacle out and try and wheedle something tangible from it.
No wonder Situationism appears to have such resonance with the Postmodernist "AntiGlob" -- anti-communist -- crowd of today.
You sound a bit...SWPish.
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