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notes to pages 74– 78
the Great War, the Weimar Republic, nationalism and the rising power of
Hitler.
124 George L. Mosse, The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism
and Mass Movement in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the
Third Reich, New York: Howard Fertig, 1975, p. 205. See also Hans-
Ulrich Thamer, ‘The Orchestration of the National Community: The
Nuremberg Party Rallies of the NSDAP’, in Günter Berghaus (ed.),
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of
Performance in Europe, 1925–45, Oxford: Berghahn, 1996, pp. 172– 90.
Chapter 3 Je participe, tu participes, il participe . . .
1 Opposing itself to functionalism, unitary urbanism advocated giving
oneself over to the city – to idleness and the pleasures found in aimless
drifting and heightened sensitivity to ambiance. See Unsigned, ‘Unitary
Urbanism at the End of the 1950s’, in Elisabeth Sussman (ed.), On the
Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The
Situationist International, 1957– 1972, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1989, p. 143.
2 Guy Debord, ‘Theory of the Dérive’, Internationale Situationniste, 2,
1958, translated in Ken Knabb (ed.), Situationist International Anthology,
Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1981, p. 53.
3 See Guy Debord, ‘Two Accounts of the Dérive’, in Libero Andreotti and
Xavier Costa (eds.), Theory of the Dérive and Other Situationist Writings
on the City, Barcelona: MACBA, 1996, pp. 28– 32.
4 This seemed to offer a psychogeographic hub for the pair, opening as it
did onto two streets and two canals, evoking the type of illustrations
found in children’s books where many geographical features are packed
into a single image; they note that Claude Lorrain often uses this device
in his paintings.
5 More recent developments in art, many of which are infl uenced by the SI
(including research- led collaborative projects investigating gentrifi cation,
urban space and provisional architecture), make the Situationist
dérive appear somewhat unfocused and arbitrary; in turn, the Situationists’
approach seems historically and materially specifi c when compared
to the Surrealists’ nocturnal strolls. See the entry on ‘Psychogeography’
in Imus Nocte et consumimur Igni: The Situationist International (1957– 72),
Basel: Museum Tinguely, 2007, n.p.
6 Abdelhafi d Khatib, ‘Attempt at a Psychogeographical Description of Les
Halles’, Internationale Situationniste, 2, 1958; English translation in
Andreotti and Costa (eds.), Theory of the Dérive, pp. 72– 6.
7 Guy Debord, ‘Guy Debord’s report to the Seventh SI Conference in
Paris’, in The Real Split in the International: Theses on the Situationist
International and Its Time, 1972, London: Pluto, 2003, p. 139.
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