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SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL

1. Preface
2. Formulary for a New Urbanism (Chtcheglov)
3. Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography (Debord)
3A. Proposals for Rationally Improving the City of Paris (Lettrist International)
4. A User’s Guide to Détournement (Debord & Wolman)
5. The Alba Platform (Lettrist International)
6. Notes on the Formation of an Imaginist Bauhaus (Jorn)
7. Report on the Construction of Situations (Debord)
8. Film Soundtracks (Debord) [now moved to 93 & 94]
9. The Sound and the Fury
10. Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation
11. Definitions
11A. Theses on Cultural Revolution (Debord)
12. The Situationists and Automation (Jorn)
13. No Useless Leniency (Bernstein)
14. Action in Belgium Against the International Assembly of Art Critics
15. Theory of the Dérive (Debord)
16. Détournement as Negation and Prelude
17. Situationist Theses on Traffic (Debord)
17A. Another City for Another Life (Constant)
17B. The Use of Free Time

18. Gangland and Philosophy (Kotányi)
19. The Adventure
20. The Fourth SI Conference in London
21. Instructions for an Insurrection
22. Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism (Kotányi & Vaneigem)
23. Perspectives for Conscious Changes in Everyday Life (Debord)
24. Geopolitics of Hibernation
25. The Bad Days Will End
26. The Fifth SI Conference in Göteborg
27. Basic Banalities (1) (Vaneigem)
28. Basic Banalities (2) (Vaneigem)
29. Ideologies, Classes, and the Domination of Nature
30. The Avant-Garde of Presence
31. The Counter-Situationist Campaign in Various Countries
32. All the King’s Men
33. Anti-Public Relations Notice
34. Now, the SI
35. Questionnaire
36. Response to a Questionnaire from the Center for Socio-Experimental Art
37. Address to Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries
38. The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy (Watts riot)
39. The Class Struggles in Algeria
39A. Contribution to a Councilist Program in Spain
40. Some Theoretical Topics That Need To Be Dealt With (Vaneigem)
41. Captive Words: Preface to a Situationist Dictionary (Khayati)
42. The Role of Godard
43. The Ideology of Dialogue
44. Interview with an Imbecile
45. The Algeria of Daniel Guérin, Libertarian
46. Domenach versus Alienation
47. The Explosion Point of Ideology in China
48. Two Local Wars (Vietnam and Arab-Israel)
49. Our Goals and Methods in the Strasbourg Scandal
50. New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art (Viénet)
51. Aiming for Practical Truth (Vaneigem)
52. Misconceptions About Revolutions in the Underdeveloped Countries (Khayati)
53. Minimum Definition of Revolutionary Organizations
54. Three Postscripts to the Previous Issue
55. The Beginning of an Era (1) (May 1968 revolt)
56. The Beginning of an Era (2)
57. Reform and Counterreform in the Bureaucratic Bloc (Prague Spring)
58. How Not To Understand Situationist Books
59. Preliminaries on Councils and Councilist Organization (Riesel)
60. Notice to the Civilized Concerning Generalized Self-Management (Vaneigem)
61. The Conquest of Space in the Time of Power (Rothe)
62. The Latest Exclusions
63. Maitron the Historian [excerpt now moved to note in The Beginning of an Era]
64. The Elite and the Backward
65. Cinema and Revolution
66. The Organization Question for the SI (Debord)
67. Preliminaries Toward a Unitary Revolutionary Program (Canjuers & Debord)
68. For a Revolutionary Judgment of Art (Debord)
69. Theses on the Paris Commune (Debord, Kotányi, Vaneigem)
70. New Forms of Action in Politics and Art (Debord)
71. On the Poverty of Student Life
72. In Short
73. May 1968 Documents
74. Internal SI Texts
75. The Blind Men and the Elephant (Selected Opinions on the Situationists)
76. Situationist Bibliography
77. Index to Debord’s Society of the Spectacle
78. Index to Vaneigem’s Revolution of Everyday Life

81. The Society of the Spectacle (1) (Debord)
82. The Society of the Spectacle (2)
83. The Society of the Spectacle (3)
84. The Society of the Spectacle (4)
85. The Society of the Spectacle (5)
86. The Society of the Spectacle (6)
87. The Society of the Spectacle (7)
88. The Society of the Spectacle (8)
89. The Society of the Spectacle (9)
90. Total Self-Management (Vaneigem)
91. Introduction to Debord’s Complete Cinematic Works
92. Howls for Sade (Debord)
93. On the Passage of a Few Persons (Debord)
94. Critique of Separation (Debord)
95. The Society of the Spectacle (film) (Debord)
96. Refutation of All the Judgments (Debord)
97. In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (Debord)
98A. Technical Notes on the First Three Films
98B. Letter about On the Passage
98C. On The Society of the Spectacle
98D. The Use of Stolen Films
98E. The Themes of In girum
98F. Instructions to the In girum Sound Engineer
98G. Chronology
98H. Filmography
98I. Bibliography


PUBLIC SECRETS

101. The Joy of Revolution (1)
102. The Joy of Revolution (2)
103. The Joy of Revolution (3)
104. The Joy of Revolution (4)
105. Confessions of a Mild-Mannered Enemy of the State (1)
106. Confessions of a Mild-Mannered Enemy of the State (2)
107. Confessions of a Mild-Mannered Enemy of the State (3)
108. Do We Need Snyder for Poet-Priest?
109. In This Theater...
110. Ode on the Absence of Real Poetry Here This Afternoon
111. Bureaucratic Comix
112. Critique of the New Left Movement (excerpts)
113. On the Poverty of Hip Life (excerpts)
114. Remarks on Contradiction and Its Failure
115. “Reich: How To Use” (comic)
116. Reich: How To Use (Voyer)
117. Discretion Is the Better Part of Value (Voyer)
118. Double-Reflection
119. Theory of Poverty, Poverty of Theory (Denevert)
120. To Clarify Some Aspects of the Moment (Denevert)
121. Declaration Concerning the CRQS
122. Notice Concerning the Reigning Society
123. The Blind Men and the Elephant (1975 poster excerpts)
124. Bureau of Public Secrets #1
125. The Society of Situationism
126. Notes Toward a Situationist Manifesto (Charles & Denevert)
127. Arms and the Woman (Charles)
128. From Science’s End (Moinet)
129. A Short Guide to the Anglo-American Situationist Image
130. Trouble Is My Business
131. Affective Détournement: A Case Study
132. The Realization and Suppression of Religion
133. Open Letter to the Tokyo “Libertaire” Group
134. A Radical Group in Hong Kong
135. The Opening in Iran
136. Banalities
137. The Relevance of Rexroth (1)
138. The Relevance of Rexroth (2)
139. The Relevance of Rexroth (3)
140. The Relevance of Rexroth (Notes)
141. The War and the Spectacle (Gulf war)
142. On René Viénet’s Film Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
143. Los Angeles 1965/1992
144. Strong Lessons for Engaged Buddhists
145. On Guy Debord’s Film The Society of the Spectacle
146. Notes on BPS Publications


OTHER BPS TEXTS

150. Terry and the Situationists
151. Dagwood on Détournement
152. Lulu’s Public Secrets (1)
153. Lulu’s Public Secrets (2)
154. Lulu’s Public Secrets (3)
155. Lulu’s Public Secrets (4)
156. We Don’t Want Full Employment, We Want Full Lives!
157. Notes and Reviews
158. Evading the Transformation of Reality
159. Loren Goldner’s Website
160. Georges Brassens and the French “Renaissance of Song”
161. Ballad of the Ladies of Bygone Times (Villon)
162. Reflections on the Uprising in France
163. Documents from the Anti-CPE Uprising
164. Graffiti from the Anti-CPE Uprising

165. Beyond Voting

190. Selected Opinions on the Bureau of Public Secrets (1975-1996)
191. Selected Opinions on the Bureau of Public Secrets (1997-2005)
191A. Selected Opinions on the Bureau of Public Secrets (2006-present)

192. A Look at Some of the Reactions to Public Secrets
193. The Poverty of Primitivism
194. Rapid Responses
195. Ten Years on the Web
196. Ken Knabb, the Situationist International, and the American Counterculture (Depétris)


MISCELLANEOUS TEXTS

201. A Non-Dogmatic Approach to Marxism (Korsch)
202. The Great Utopia (Weber)
203. May 1968 Graffiti
204. War Is the Health of the State (Bourne)
205. Disinterest Compounded Daily (Rosenberg & Shutes)
206. Two Gulf War Documents (Brook et al.)
207. Crime and Criminals (Darrow)
208. Introduction to a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (Marx)
209. The Tyranny of Structurelessness (Freeman)
210. Designing Pacifist Films (Goodman)
211. Buddhist Anarchism (Snyder)
212. The Problem of Social Consciousness (1) (Weber)
213. The Problem of Social Consciousness (2) (Weber)
214. Stories of Mr. Keuner (Brecht)
215. Banning Cars from Manhattan (Goodman)
216. The Power of Negative Thinking (Chasse)
217. Karl Marx (Korsch)
218. Karl Marx (1)
219. Karl Marx (2)
220. Karl Marx (3)


BUREAU PREHISTORY

250. Bureau Prehistory
251. Leaflets (CEM)
252. “Great Moments in the Void” Trading Cards (CEM)
253. On Wielding the Subversive Scalpel (CEM)
254. Additions to On the Poverty of Student Life (CEM)
255. “Hello, Men!” balloon (1044)
256. Riot and Representation (1044)
257. Open Letter to John Zerzan (Contradiction)
258. Wildcat Comics (1) (Contradiction)
259. Wildcat Comics (2)
260. Wildcat Comics (3)
261. Wildcat Comics (4)
262. Still Out of Order (Contradiction & Point-Blank)
263. Critique of Anti-Mass (Contradiction)
264. Critique of the New Left Movement (Contradiction)
265. On the Poverty of Hip Life (Contradiction)


REXROTH ARCHIVE

300. Rexroth Archive
301. Communalism (1)
302. Communalism (2)
303. Communalism (3)
304. Communalism (4)
305. Communalism (5)
306. Communalism (6)
307. Communalism (7)
308. Subversive Aspects of Popular Songs
309. The Social Lie
310. The Chinese Classic Novel
311. The Reality of Henry Miller
312. The Decline of American Humor
313. Some Thoughts on Jazz
314. Five More Articles on Jazz
315. Disengagement: The Art of the Beat Generation
316. Talking about Rexroth (Gibson & Knabb)
317. Beginnings of a New Revolt
318. American Indians Songs
319. The Hasidism of Martin Buber
320. Lafcadio Hearn and Japanese Buddhism
321. Mark Twain
322. Greeks and Buddhists in Afghanistan
323. Poems (1920s)
324. Poems (1930s)
325. Poems (1940s)
325A. The Phoenix and the Tortoise
325B. The Dragon and the Unicorn

326. Poems (1950s)
327. Poems (1960s)
328. Poems (1970s)
329. Autobiography (1)
330. Autobiography (2)
331. Autobiography (3)
332. Autobiography (4)
333. Autobiography (5)
334. Autobiography (6)
335. Translations from Greek and Latin
336. Translations from Italian and Spanish
337. Translations from French
338. Translations from Chinese
339. Translations from Japanese
340. Classics Revisited (Introduction)
341. Classics Revisited (1) (Gilgamesh, Iliad, Odyssey)
342. Classics Revisited (2) (Sappho, Herodotus, Bhagavad-Gita)
342A. Classics Revisited (2A) (Thucydides)
343. Classics Revisited (3) (Tao Te Ching, Satyricon, Plutarch)
342A. Classics Revisited (3A) (Tacitus)
344. Classics Revisited (4) (Kalevala, Tu Fu, Tale of Genji)
345. Classics Revisited (5) (Chaucer, Popular Ballads, Machiavelli)
346. Classics Revisited (6) (Montaigne, Don Quixote, Compleat Angler)
347. Classics Revisited (7) (Robinson Crusoe, Dream of the Red Chamber, Casanova)
347A. Classics Revisited (7A) (Gibbon)

348. Classics Revisited (8) (Blake, Stendhal, Marx)
349. Classics Revisited (9) (Baudelaire, Whitman, Rimbaud)
350. Classics Revisited (10) (Huckleberry Finn, Chekhov, Parade’s End)
351. D.H. Lawrence
352. Kenneth Patchen

353. Rexroths San Francisco (1960a)
354. Rexroth
s San Francisco (1960b)
355. Rexroth
s San Francisco (1961)
356. Rexroth
s San Francisco (1962)
357. Rexroth
s San Francisco (1963)
358. Rexroth
s San Francisco (1964)
359. Rexroth
s San Francisco (1965)
360. Rexroth
s San Francisco (1966)
361. Rexroth
s San Francisco (1966-1967)
362. Rexroth
s San Francisco (1968-1969)
363. Rexroth
s San Francisco (1970-1972)
364. Rexroth
s San Francisco (1973-1974)
365. Rexroth
s San Francisco (1975)
366. Camping in the Western Mountains (1)
367. Camping in the Western Mountains (2)
368. Camping in the Western Mountains (3)
369. Camping in the Western Mountains (4)
370. Camping in the Western Mountains (5)
371. Camping in the Western Mountains (6)
372. Camping in the Western Mountains (7)
373. Camping in the Western Mountains (8)
374. Camping in the Western Mountains (9)
375. Camping in the Western Mountains (10)
376. Camping in the Western Mountains (11)
377. Camping in the Western Mountains (12)
378. Two Talks on Poetry and Society
379. The Poet as Translator

380. The Art of Literature (Encyclopaedia Britannica article)
381. Lawrence Durrell
382. Isaac Bashevis Singer
383. Baudelaire’s Ennobling Revulsion
384. Rimbaud as Capitalist Adventurer
385. The Cubist Poetry of Pierre Reverdy
386. The Influence of French Poetry on American
387. Science and Civilization in China
388. Sung Dynasty Culture
389. The Tao of Painting
390. Japanese Literature
391. The World of Genji
392. Japanese Noh Plays
393. The Poetry of the Far East in a General Education
394. Matteo Ricci’s China Journals
395. Ecclesiastes
396. Gnosticism
397. The Holy Kabbalah
398. Simone Weil
399. The New English Bible
400. My Head Gets Tooken Apart
401. Citizen Fromm
402. Turner: Painting as an Organism of Light
403. Turner and Whistler
404. The Letters of Van Gogh
405. The Heroic Object and Fernand Léger
406. Mark Tobey: Painter of the Humane Abstract
407. The Visionary Painting of Morris Graves

408. The Making of the Counterculture
409. Urbanism and Community Planning
410. The New American Poetry
411. The Poetry of Eli Siegel
412. Allen Ginsberg in America
413. The Authentic Joy of Philip Whalen
414. Gary Snyder: Smokey the Bear Bodhisattva
415. Prefaces to Rexroth’s Poetry
416. Greek Tragedy in Translation
417. Tragedy and Philosophy
418. William Blake
419. Henry James and H.G. Wells
420. Samuel Beckett and the Importance of Waiting
421. Introduction to Bird in the Bush: Obvious Essays
422. Jack Kerouac
423. Jazz Poetry

424. Edward Gibbon’s Letters
425. Francis Parkman
426. The Unchristian Crusades
427. The Sicilian Vespers

428. D.H. Lawrence: The Other Face of the Coin
429. Henry Miller: The Iconoclast as Everyman’s Friend
430. Blaise Cendrars
431. Ford Madox Ford
432. Richard Wright and the Persistence of Racism

433. Thomas More’s Utopia
434. The Spiritual Alchemy of Thomas Vaughan
435. Lamennais: From Reaction to Revolution
436. The Evolution of Anglo-Catholicism
437. The Catholic Modernists

438. Haiku and Japanese Religion
439. Ten Influential Books

440. On Translating Roman Verse
441. Coleridge and Zen?
442. The Victorian Conspiracy of Cant

443. Six Japanese Novelists
444. The Heat


GATEWAY TO THE VAST REALMS

500. Introduction
501. Literature: Greek and Latin
502. French
503. Other European
504. British
505.
American
506. Chinese and Japanese
507. Other Non-European
508. Detectives, Fantasy, Science Fiction
509. Books on Books
510. Eastern Religion and Philosophy
511. Western Religion
512. Western Philosophy
513. Science and Pseudoscience
514. Psychology
515. Anthropology and Folklore
516. Note on Music, Art and Film
517. Humor and Comics
518. History
519. Modern History and Revolution: Western Europe
520. Russia and East Europe
521. United States
522. China, Japan, Third World
523. Marxism
524. Utopianism and Anarchism
525. Miscellaneous Social Analysis
526. Note on the Situationists
527. Books for Children
528. Desert Island Books
        Passages from Recommended Works:
529. Homer: The Iliad and The Odyssey
530.
Sappho: Poem of Jealousy
531. Carmina Burana
532.
The Kalevala
533.
The Book of Songs (Shih Ching)
534.
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 1)
535.
Chuang Tzu: The Dexterous Butcher
536.
Tu Fu: Thoughts While Traveling at Night
537.
Bashô: Frog Haiku
538.
Bashô: Narrow Road to the Interior
539. Baudelaire: The Balcony
540. Buber: I and Thou
541. Murasaki: The Tale of Genji



 

 

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