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LEAVING THE 20th CENTURY: The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International
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We are only concerned with the moments when life shatters the glaciation of survival -- from the front cover
"It is high time to put an end to the dead time that has dominated this century and to finish the Christian era with the same stroke. The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Ours is the best effort so far towards leaving the 20th century."
In 1964 when these words were written they seemed to have little relevance. By 1968 ten million workers were on strike and France was near revolution -- "Our ideas are in everyone's minds".
If any single idea lay at the heart of May '68, it was Situationism. The search for a 'Northwest Passage' from the banal tyranny of the modern bourgeois order into the 'world that has never been' was signposted most clearly by the Situationists. Through a thousand acts of refusal and rebellion the route is revealed. The task was simple -- to 'reconstruct' life itself.
Published in 1974, Leaving the 20th Century was the first collection of Situationist writing in English. Chris Gray, its editor, was himself a member of the Situationist International. Long out of print, it has gained an enormous reputation and now it is time for a new generation of readers to take up this remarkable book.
Preface -- Richard Parry, May 1998
"Everyone Will Live In His Own Cathedral": The Situationists, 1958-1964 -- Christopher Gray
The Sound and the Fury -- IS no. 1, 1958
The Struggle for Control of the New Techniques of Conditioning -- IS no. 1, 1958
The Construction of Situations: An Introduction -- IS no. 1, 1958
Formula for a New City: Milord, I am from another country -- Gilles Ivain, IS no. 1, 1958
Traffic -- Guy Debord, IS no. 3, 1959
Instructions for Taking up Arms -- IS no. 6, 1961
Unitary Urbanism -- Kotanyi / Vaniegem, IS no. 6, 1961
The Transformation of Everyday Life -- IS no. 6, 1961
The Bad Old Days Will End -- IS no. 7, 1963
The Totality for Kids -- Raoul Vaneigem, IS nos. 7-8, 1962-63
Theses on the Commune -- Debord / Kotanyi / Vaneigem (broadsheet, 1963)
All the King's Men -- IS no. 8, 1963
Isolation -- IS no. 9, 1964
"Shake In Your Shoes Bureaucrats": The Situationists, 1965-1969 -- Christopher Gray, IS no. 12, 1969
Watts 1965: The Decline and Fall of the 'Spectacular' Commodity Economy -- Martin / Strijbosch / Vaneigem / Vienet, IS no. 9, 1964
The Decor and the Spectators of Suicide -- IS no. 10, 1966
The Situationists and the New Forms of Struggle Against Politics and Art -- Rene Vienet, IS no. 11, 1967
Minimum Definition of a Revolutionary Organisation -- adopted by the Seventh Conference of the SI, July 1966
The Proletariat as Subject and as Representation -- From The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, 1967
Nihilism -- IS no. 11, 1967
Self-Realisation, Communication and Participation -- From The Revolution of Everyday Life, Raoul Vaneigem, 1967
Address to All Workers -- Leaflet, May 1968
Some Thoughts on General Self-Management -- Raoul Vaneigem, IS no. 12, 1969
Members of the Situationist International
"Those Who Make Half a Revolution Only Dig Their Own Graves": The Situationists Since 1969 -- Christopher Gray
