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i'm glad with the fact that it seems like a lot of people were a bit peeved by the fact that, (something that Raunig commented on in the reading on the situationst international that most people seemed to choose to focus their attention on this week) there is very little work, or anything that seemed to precipitate out of all of this philosphical creeds and manifestoes and political theories.
It felt a bit like when i made esthers in year nine science: you set up this huge interconnected mad scientist set-up of beakers and volumetric flasks bubbling away on bunsen burners and connected by rubber seals and plastic tubes, spend half an hour measuring out chemicals and in the end there's this one foot condensing tube and down it trickle two or three drops of your esther and you say to yourself 'all that for this?'

i guess i just find myself a little bit frustrated or perhaps just grumps when there arent any nice pictures or illustrations to accompany the text.


"STAY YOUNG AND SHUT UP"

Putting that aside though, i tried to do a little bit more research into the situationist international to see if i could find some more examples of where there ideas actually 'precipitated' as it were. i found that in may 1968 in paris there was this huge demonstration/ revolts/ protests/'general wild cat strikes' (i think i like that last one the best) which culminated in the biggest general strike in a developed country.
ever.
I think that it's important to place the ethos of the situationist international in the context of the social tumult and general sense of upheaval at the time. If you've ever seen that horrible film 'the dreamers' or, (something with a bit more academic cred.)'La Chinoise' by Jean Luc-Godard, you'll get a sense for how exciting those days were. So i guess i'm trying to justify or to undercut my sense of frustration with this reading, by in a sense understanding where it came from.