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57. Guy Debord, ”Comments on the concept of experimental art.” An internal
note circulated among the membership. Private Collection.
58. Marelli, L’Amère victoire du situationnisme.
59. “The Alba Platform,” in Situationist International Anthology, ed. Knabb, 14.
60. Reference here is to Lefebvre’s term as it appears in his numerous writings,
and more speciWcally in the collection of his essays in the book with the same title:
The Production of Space, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (London: Blackwell, 1991).
61. Attila Kotanyi and Raoul Vaneigem, “programme élémentaire du bureau
d’urbanisme unitaire,” Internationale Situationniste, no. 6 (August 1961). Trans. “Elementary
Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism,” in Situationist International
Anthology, ed. by Knabb, 65–68.
62. See the issues of both Cobra and Eristica, but also Potlatch and Internationale
Situationniste with various critical texts on architectural functionalism. For example,
Guy Debord, “L’Architecture et le jeu,” Potlatch, no. 20 (May 30, 1955). Or perhaps
Constant, “Sur nos moyens et nos perspectives,” Internationale Situationniste, no. 2
(December 1958). Translated as “On Our Means and Our Perspectives,” in Another
City for Another Life: Constant’s New Babylon, Drawing Papers 3 (New York: Drawing
Center, 1999), a6–a8.
63. “Report on the Construction of Situations,” in Situationist International Anthology,
ed. Knabb, 17.
64. “Manifeste,” Internationale Situationniste, no. 4 (June 1960).
65. Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes, 225–56; See also Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The
Formation of Men’s Attitudes, trans. Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner, with an introduction
by Konrad Kellen (New York: Knopf, 1965).
66. See Mario Perniola’s article, “I situazionisti,” Agaragar 4 (1972). See also “Die
Welt Als Labyrinth” (unsigned article), Internationale Situationniste, no. 4 (June 1960):
5–7; Asger Jorn, “Sur l’antisituation d’Amsterdam,” in Discours aux pingouins, 267–74.
67. See the exhibition catalog The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architecture
from Constant’s New Babylon and Beyond, ed. Catherine de Zegher and Mark
Wigley (New York: Drawing Center, 1999).
68. Kotanyi and Vaneigem, “Elementary Program of the Bureau of Unitary
Urbanism.”
69. For example DAS (Destruction in Art Symposium) was Gustav Metzger ‘s
strategy that came out in his work on auto-destructive art. See Gustav Metzger, Retrospective,
ed. Ian Cole, exhibition catalog (Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, 1999).
Wolf Vostell worked in a similar vein. He also published a very inXuential avantgarde
magazine, Décollage (Cologne, began with issue for June 1962).
70. Viennese Action group, albeit in a different way, can be added to this lot.
See Lorand Hegyi and Dieter Schrage “Between Provocation and Liberation: The
Contextualization of the Body in Viennese Actionism,” in Art Tribes, ed. Achille
Bonito Oliva (Milan: Skira, 2002), 343–65.
71. Henri Lefebvre, Writings on Cities, trans. and ed. Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth
Lebas (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), 76.
72. Ibid., 168.
73. Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, 10.
74. See the description of the unitary urbanist event in Turin in 1956 earlier in
the chapter.
75. One of the famous Paris May 1968 slogans (Pouvoir à l’imagination).
76. May 1968 GrafWti.