"between the mass of information collected and the time and intelligence available to analyze it" ( Guy Debord, comments on the society of the spectacle. London: Verso, 1990, Thesis 30.
There is such immense amount of ideas and information on Situationism and its influences and because of this Situationism had the potential to lose its core principles, which were based upon the need for revolution and equality for everyone. The importance of the Situationists was not only confined to the artworld, there influential writings and ideas most famously helped to spur on the May 1968 riots in Paris, but also in a less obvious way they also managed to seep into collective consciousness of society through the very thing they despised consumerism which in essence is essential for any and all information to be communicated as it has to be consumed to be recognized and in the cyclical nature of the spectacle it is ultimately regurgitated, reinterpreted and critiqued by the next generation. By looking at the Situationists influence in popular culture it helps us to understand how they opposed and undermined capitalism in there time and why there ideas are still relevant to todays society.
'An art transcending art, Situationism is characterized by it invisibility, by its irreducible opposition to all forms of representation, of the spectacle" pg.286 ' Angels of purity' by Vincent Kauffman.
I recommend a book called lipstick traces by Griel Marcus.
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