| Titre | La fin des avant-gardes : les situationnistes et mai 1968 | |
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| Auteur | Jean-Christophe Angaut | |
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Revue | Actuel Marx |
| Numéro | no 45, avril 2009 Arts et politiques | |
| Page | 149-161 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The End of the Avant-Gardes : May 68 and the Situationists
What emerges first and foremost from Debord's writings in 1968 is that the situationists' initial
reaction to the May “events” was to interpret them as the first example of a spontaneous general
strike in the context of what he called “overdeveloped capitalism”. Debord's position on this
question is linked to his questioning of the status of the avant-gardes. At the time, Debord and
those close to him sought both to conceptualise and to enact the end of the avant-gardes. And
this included the Internationale Situationniste in its status as political, philosophical and artistic
avant-garde. e article subsequently sets out to show that if the situationists did have any leverage
on the events of May, it was insofar as they practised a maverick Marxism centred on the concept
of alienation. is enabled them to conceptualise both the exploitation of the wage-earner and
the condition of the consumer. Because they represent a comprehensive critique of capitalism and
because, furthermore, they refuse to compromise on the revolutionary and worker dimension of
the May-June 1968 moment, Debord's writings of the period enable us to grasp what, in the strict
sense, remains beyond any opportunistic recuperation in these events. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=AMX_045_0149 |
