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himself with theories of postanarchism
(which focus on the deconstruction of the
subject, non-placement, deterritorialisation
etc.). In Bonanno’s work, on the contrary,
the modern subject longing for the basic,
better life beyond exploitation still exists.
This was also a thesis of the situationists,
who were for a real Hegelian subject, a modern
subject that knows what it wants and is
today actually being destroyed through exploitation
and the society of spectacle. They
have formulated the statement Our ideas are
in everybody’s minds, but in my view we cannot
see it this way anymore, because we have
become recuperated too much, incorporated
and commodificated in the society of the
spectacle.
When the Boston Institute for Contemporary
Art made an exhibition on situationists
in 1989 (the same year as in Paris). It was
curated by Elizabeth Sussman. For her, the
comparison between contemporary artists
and situationist ideas was very important.
Elisabeth inverted the statement Our ideas
are in everybody’s minds in a tricky way and
pointed out that situationist ideas were even
in the minds of artists making appropriation
art such as Robert Longo, Jenny Holzer, Barbara
Kruger etc...
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rekcionizam, on je od 70-tih godina nekoliko
puta bio u zatvoru. Bonanno se ne zalaže
za teoriju nego za stvaran i aktivan pristup.
Bonanno je klasičan humanista i ne bavi se
teorijama postanarhizma (koje su fokusirane
na dekonstrukciju subjekta, non-placement,
deteritorijalizaciju, itd..). Naprotiv,
kod Bonannai dalje postoji moderni subjekt
koji teži bazičnom boljem životu neogrezlom
u eksploataciji. To je u isto vreme i teza
situacionista, jer su i oni bili za pravi hegelijanski,
moderni subjekt, koji zna šta hoće i
koji je danas zapravo uništen kapitalističkom
eksploatacijom i društvom spektakla. Situacionisti
formulišu parolu Our ideas are in
everybody’s minds, ali po meni, na žalost,
više ne možemo razmišljati na ovaj način jer
smo do te mere rekuperirani, kooptirani i
komodifikovani u društvo spektakla.
Kada je Institut za savremenu umetnost iz
Bostona napravio izložbu o situacionistima,
1989. godine, (znači iste godine kada i u Parizu),
kuratorka je bila Elizabeth Sussman.
Za nju je bila važna komparacija između
savremenih umetnika i situacionističke ideje.
Elizabeth na veoma „tricky“ način izvrće
stejtment situacionista Our ideas are in
everybody’s minds. Ona naglašava da su njihove
ideje bile čak i u glavama umetnika i
umetnica koji/e su pravili/e apropriacionu
umetnost, kao što su Robert Longo, Jenny
Holzer, Barbara Kruger, itd…