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Plant - The Situationist International A Case of Spectacular Neglect (Radical Philosophy 1990)
"Plant - The Situationist International A Case of Spectacular Neglect (Radical Philosophy 1990)" keeps the situationist and art-strike background visible inside the cyberfeminist section, showing how anti-spectacular politics feeds into later technical subjectivity.
Archive condition
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Core idea
The page matters because cyberfeminism here is not an add-on to the archive's better-known themes. It is one of the places where circuitry, writing, labor, and gender are made to reorganize what counts as a subject or a system.
These texts work by making cultural criticism, theory, and technical description contaminate each other. The result is a model of subjectivity produced through networks, codes, and infrastructural mediation rather than grounded in stable identity.
That matters because the archive's human/machine problem changes once it is read through Plant, Parisi, and later xenofeminist debate. The future stops looking like a neutral technical horizon and becomes a struggle over who or what gets composed by it.
How to read this text
Read for where writing, labor, media, or embodiment are described as technical arrangements rather than background topics. That is where the page usually sharpens.
Keep an eye on how the page positions itself against humanist or moralizing accounts of technology. The section's strongest interventions are usually anti-essentialist and infrastructural at once.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
The Situationist International: A Case of Spectacular Neglect Sadie Plant The recent exhibitions of Situationist art and paraphernalia in London, Paris, and Boston, have given the Situationist Inter- national (SI) an unprecedented academic and cultural profile.
Definition · paragraph 6
On what basis do they identify class? And how is the definition of society as a unified totality constituted by an economic sys- tem legitimated? Such would be the tenor of Baudrillard's criticisms if he but acknowledged his engagement with the Situationist International.
Definition · paragraph 8
Donald Nicholson-Smith (Left Bank Books and Rebel Press, no place, 1983). 2 Raoul Vaneigem, 'Banalites de Base', Internationale Situ- ationniste No. 8, 1963, translated as 'Basic Banalities' in Situationist International Anthology, op. cit., p.
History · paragraph 3
Such practices undermined the pejorative meaning of plagiarism by bringing the notions of originality into question, and chal- lenged notions of genius and talent by their presentation of a Radical Philosophy 55, Summer 1990 creativity open to all. They provided a constant challenge to art to justify itself as a specialised and elite practice separated from everyday existence. The Situationists advocated this sort of detournement of all established values, symbols, and relations.
Afterlife · paragraph 8
Notes The twelve issues of the journal are collected in Internation- ale Situationniste 1958-1969 (Champ Libre, Paris, 1975), and substantial excerpts are collected in the Situationist International Anthology, edited and translated by Ken Knabb (Bureau of Public Secrets, Berkeley, 1981).
Appears in sections
Cyberfeminism, Xenofeminism, and Technical Subjects Primary section
Sadie Plant, Amy Ireland, and the technical, gendered, and synthetic subject positions running through the archive.