UNDERNEWS: Word: The situationists

June 21, 2015

Word: The situationists

- "Live without dead time" - Vivez sans temps mort - Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968

- "I take my desires for reality because I believe in the reality of my desires" - Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968

- "Be realistic - demand the impossible!" - Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible! - Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968

- "Beneath the paving stones - the beach!" - Sous les pavés, la plage! - Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968

- "Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom." - Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968

- "People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth"- Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution Of Everyday Life

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Anonymous said...: Situationists, descendants of Existentialists, in turn ancestors of all the whistleblowers sounding alarums for our present day consciousness - a genealogy of our evolving culture.; June 21, 2015 at 7:37 PM

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