December
1960
Documents
Report on the SI’s Theater of Operations
I should point out that what I’m about to read has already largely been discussed within the SI, and therefore that it has lost a good deal of its interest. Please excuse me for this. I’ll confine myself to three proposals for “situating” the Situationist International itself within all other artistic and political problems.
Fundamentally, I ask that we consider:
a) the SI as a materially equipped encounter (which is also a passion and a denunciation), with the accent on “materially equipped”;
b) that the preparatory stage for basic equipment (a stage that could be described as pre-situationist or pre-artistic, etc.) is controlled by capitalist automatism;
c) that this basic equipment is the implementation of situationist possibility.
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