Dominique Routhier
from With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation (2023)
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As you read this highly entertaining account of the encounter between the Situationist International (SI) and Abraham Moles in the long prelude to May 68, reflect on one or more aspects of this conflictual exchange: SI tactics of disruption; the role of the university within larger political struggles; the ideas of cybernetics and information aesthetics and, most importantly, their critique by the SI; the relation of all this to the discipline of design; or something else. As you write, consider the connection between this text and the ones before. Let’s talk about that next time.