Internazionale Situazionista 1958-69
Nautilus, Torino 1994
La pubblicazione di questo libro rappresenta un evento. Per la prima volta, tutti i numeri della rivista dei situazionisti sono presentati in una traduzione integrale e, dicono, perfetta. Basta con gli “specialisti” alla Mirella Bandini e con i censori opportunisti. La verità innanzitutto. Finalmente, cosa ha veramente detto l’IS è sotto gli occhi di tutti.
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“I was frightened to find myself
in the void, I myself a void.
I felt like I was suffocating,
considering and feeling
that everything is void,
solid void.”
—Giacomo Leopardi
Continue reading The Technique of Certainty by Marco Beaco
Times of doubt and uncertainty have arrived. New and old fears spur the search for guarantees. In the market where human affairs are managed, new models of comfort are briskly haggled over. Madonnas weep, politicians make promises; everywhere war and misery, savagery and horror are rife, rendering us now unable to even feel outrage, let alone to rebel.
Continue reading The Reverse Road by Alfredo M. Bonanno
One who writes, perhaps even more than one who speaks, is called to clarify, to bring light. A problem is posed – the problem of something the one who writes should be concerned with since otherwise his respect would be deprived of meaning. This problem is illuminated by the use of words, by a specific use, capable of being organized within the shell of certain rules and in view of a perspective to be attained.
Continue reading The Obscure Clarity of Words by Alfredo M. Bonanno
One who writes, perhaps even more than one who speaks, is called to clarify, to bring light. A problem is posed – the problem of something the one who writes should be concerned with since otherwise his respect would be deprived of meaning. This problem is illuminated by the use of words, by a specific use, capable of being organized within the shell of certain rules and in view of a perspective to be attained.
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The meaning of measure. It is an enclosure that is simultaneously a dispute with and management of life, a prison that poses the existence of people equal to zero.
Continue reading The Logic of Measure by Massimo Passamani
The entire history of western civilization can be read as a systematic attempt to exclude and isolate the body. From Plato on, it has been seen at various times as a folly to control, an impulse to repress, labor power to arrange or an unconscious to psychoanalyze.
The platonic separation between the body and the mind, a separation carried out to the complete advantage of the latter (“the body is the tomb of the mind”), even accompanies the seemingly most radical expressions of thought.
Continue reading The Body and Revolt by Massimo Passamani
Among the various characteristics of the last several years, the failure of global automation in the factories (understood in strict sense) must be pointed out, a failure caused by the failure of the prospects and, if you will, the dreams of mass production.
Continue reading Streamlined Production by A.M. Bonanno