By: Peggy Nelson

Stitching up a deep history of memes

By: Lucy Sante

The clochard who chronicled freedom from the straight world.

By: Lucy Sante

Dashiell Hammett vs. The Situationists

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from LES VALSEUSES (1974)

By: Joshua Glenn

Freelancers aren’t free from discipline, surveillance, and control.

By: Joshua Glenn

He was a martyr in the cause of absurdism and ’pataphysics.

By: Mark Kingwell

GUY DEBORD (1931-94) was a founder and key intellectual figure in the Situationist International, an avant-garde Marxist collective influential in postwar France, especially during the 1968 uprising in Paris. Debord’s book The Society of the […]

By: Joshua Glenn

A quick note about Neo-Dadaists and Pop Art. This item is excerpted from yesterday’s essay on the Postmodernist Generation. Neo-Dada artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Yves Klein were born between 1924-33. Reacting […]