Thursday 16 February 2012

McKenzie Wark: The Legend of the Situationist International (Theory Centre London, Ontario Feb 17)

Friday February 17 at 3:30pm in Somerville House 2348 - McKenzie Wark - ‘A Minimum of Serious Seduction: The Legend of the The Situationist Ιnternational’.
Free and Open to All!
“As the newspaper editor says in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, ‘when legend becomes fact, print the legend’. The Situationist International - big Film Fans among other things - certainly lived by this principle. As Henri Lefebvre would note about their MO, they occupied the terrain of resonant symbols as a way of confronting the more mundane communications of what they would dub ‘the Society of the Spectacle’. In this presentation, I will look at a range of strategies they adopted, particularly in the early years of the SI” -- Ken Wark on his upcoming lecture.

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