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Description: A situationist style detournement of Metropolis presenting a Black&Red anti-capitalist diatribe.Capitalism is based on commodity production (production of goods for profit) and wage labor (labor power itself bought and sold as a commodity). There is less difference between the slave and the 'free' worker than appears. Slaves, though they seem to be paid nothing, are provided with the means of their survival and reproduction, for which workers (who become temporary slaves during their hours of labor) are compelled to pay most of their wages. The fact that some jobs are less unpleasant than others, and that individual workers have the nominal right to switch jobs, start their own business, buy stocks or win a lottery, simply disguises the fact that the vast majority of people are collectively enslaved.Modern society is centered around the production, distribution and consumption of material goods, rather than the happiness and satisfaction of its participants. Thus, modern man thinks of his life in terms of what he has 'to show for it,' rather than considering the life itself. Today's average worker is used to thinking about the ends rather than the means. We spend most of our time and energy working at a job that in all likelihood does not fulfill our dreams. We look forward to payday every two weeks, for we count on our paycheck to make sense out of our lives: without it, we would feel like we were wasting our time. If we didn't look at the 'consequences' of our actions as a justification for them, life would be unbearable. Insofar as our everyday experience of life is tedious and meaningless, we need to concentrate on the coming weekend, the next vacation, our next purchases, to fend off insanity. And eventually we are bound to generalize that mode of thinking to other parts of our lives: we come to evaluate possible actions according to the rewards they offer, just as we would evaluate a job according to the wage it offers. Thus, the present has lost almost all significance for us. Instead we spend our lives always planning for the future: we study for a diploma, rather than for the pleasure of learning; we choose a job for social status, wealth, and 'security,' rather than for joy; we save our money for big purchases and vacation trips, rather than to buy our way out of wage slavery and into full time freedom. Capitalist civilization has not yet been superseded anywhere, but it continues to produce its own enemies everywhere. The next rise of the revolutionary movement, radicalized by the lessons of past defeats and with a program enriched in proportion to the practical potentials of modern society, will immediately base itself on new everyday practices and on new types of human relationships.Never in history has there been such a glaring contrast between what could be and what actually exists. Those who don't face direct physical repression still have to face the mental repressions imposed by an increasingly mean, stressful, ignorant and ugly world. Those who escape economic poverty cannot escape the general impoverishment of life. Yet this same development has made it possible to abolish the system of hierarchy and exploitation that was previously based on material scarcity and to inaugurate a new, genuinely liberated form of society. Our use of the word 'revolution' has nothing to do with the repugnant stereotypes that are usually evoked by the word (terrorism, revenge, political coups, manipulative leaders preaching self-sacrifice, zombie followers chanting politically correct slogans).A liberated society can be created only by the active participation of the people as a whole, not by hierarchical organizations supposedly acting on their behalf. The point is not to choose more honest or 'responsive' leaders, but to avoid granting independent power to any leaders whatsoever. Individuals or groups may initiate radical actions, but a substantial and rapidly expanding portion of the population must take part if a movement is to lead to a new society and not simply to a coup installing new rulers.Modern revolution is all or nothing: individual revolts are bound to fail until an international chain reaction is triggered that spreads faster than repression can close in. Is such a revolution likely? The odds are probably against it. But most revolutions have been preceded by periods when everyone scoffed at the idea that things could ever change.

Description: Here the SPECTACLE is captured and made to expose itself (if even for a brief moment) by turning its most beloved mystifying commodity, the computer, back onto itself to the benefit of language. It slowly dies a dramatic death of Lettristic convulsions.SPECTACLEIn societies where modern conditions of production prevail, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived is now merely represented in the distance.The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images. The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point that it becomes images.The spectacle cannot be understood as a mere visual deception produced by mass-media technologies. It is a worldview that has actually been materialized.Understood in its totality, the spectacle is both the result and the goal of the dominant mode of production. It is not a mere decoration added to the real world. It is the very heart of this real society's unreality. In all its particular manifestations - news, propaganda, advertising, entertainment - the spectacle represents the dominant model of life. It is the omnipresent affirmation of the choices that have already been made in the sphere of production and in the consumption implied by that production. In both form and content the spectacle serves as a total justification of the conditions and goals of the existing system. The spectacle also represents the constant presence of this justification since it monopolizes the majority of the time spent outside the production process.The spectacle is both the meaning and the agenda of our particular socio-economic formation. It is the historical moment in which we are caught.The spectacle presents itself as a vast inaccessible reality that can never be questioned. Its sole message is: 'What appears is good, what is good appears.' The passive acceptance it demands is already effectively imposed by its monopoly of appearances, its manner of appearing without allowing any reply.The first stage of the economy's domination of social life brought about an evident degradation of being into having - human fulfillment was no longer equated with what one was, but with what one possessed. The present stage, in which social life has become completely dominated by the accumulated productions of the economy, is bringing about a general shift from having to appearing - all 'having' must now derive its immediate prestige and its ultimate purpose from appearances. POETRYThe problem of language is at the heart of all the struggles between the forces striving to abolish the present alienation and those striving to maintain it. It is inseparable from the very terrain of those struggles. We live within language as within polluted air. Despite what humorists think, words do not play. Words work - on behalf of the dominant organization of life. Yet they are not completely automated: unfortunately for the theoreticians of information, words are not in themselves 'informationist'; they contain forces that can upset the most careful calculations. Words coexist with power in a relation analogous to that which proletarians have with power. Employed by it almost full time, exploited for every sense and nonsense that can be squeezed out of them, they still remain in some sense fundamentally alien to it. Under the control of power, language always designates something other than authentic experience. It is precisely for this reason that a total contestation is possible. The organization of language has fallen into such confusion that the communication imposed by power is exposing itself as an imposture and a dupery. An embryonic cybernetic power is vainly trying to put language under the control of the machines it controls, in such a way that information would henceforth be the only possible communication. Even on this terrain resistances are being manifested; electronic music could be seen as an attempt (obviously limited and ambiguous) to reverse the domination by detourning machines to the benefit of language. But there is a much more general and radical opposition that is denouncing all unilateral 'communication,' in the old form of art as well as in the modern form of informationism. It calls for a communication that undermines all separate power. Real communication dissolves the state. Power lives off stolen goods. It creates nothing, it coopts. If it determined the meaning of words, there would be no poetry but only useful 'information.' Opposition would be unable to express itself in language; any refusal would be nonverbal, purely lettristic. What is poetry if not the revolutionary moment of language, inseparable as such from the revolutionary moments of history and from the history of personal life?

Description: A look at the events and some of the causes of the uprising in France in the Spring of 1968. Unfortuately, there is no mention of one of the driving forces of the uprising both before and during the revolt - the Situationist International.For more information check out the writings of the Situationists themselves.The Beginning of an Erahttp://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/12.era1.htmMay 1968 Documentshttp://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/May68doc...The Joy of Revolutionhttp://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/joyrev3.htmThe Society of the Spectaclehttp://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/The Revolution of Everyday Lifehttp://library.nothingness.org/articl...Enrages and Situationists in the Occupation Movement, France, May '68May 1968 Graffiti Boredom is counterrevolutionary.In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.Those who make revolutions halfway only dig their own graves.No replastering, the structure is rotten.We will ask nothing. We will demand nothing. We will take, occupy.Down with the state.It's painful to submit to our bosses; it's even more stupid to choose them.Abolish class society.We want neither to rule nor to be ruled.All power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutelyPolitics is in the streets.Barricades close the streets but open the way.People who work get bored when they don't work.People who don't work never get bored.The boss needs you, you don't need the boss.Humanity won't be happy till the last capitalist is hung with the guts of the last bureaucrat.A single nonrevolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of total revolution.We refuse to be highrised, diplomaed, licensed, inventoried, registered, indoctrinated,suburbanized, sermonized, beaten, telemanipulated, gassed, booked.Coming soon to this location: charming ruins.Our aim is to agitate and disturb people. We're not selling bread, We're selling yeast.You will end up dying of comfort.Poetry is in the streets.The most beautiful sculpture is a paving stone thrown at a cop's head.Revolution, I love you.I'm a Groucho Marxist.Desiring reality is great! Realizing your desires is even better!Be realistic, demand the impossible.Those who lack imagination cannot imagine what is lacking.Arise, ye wretched of the university.Professors, you are as senile as your culture, your modernism is nothing but the modernization of the police.Neither God nor master.If God existed it would be necessary to abolish him. How can you think freely in the shadow of a chapel?The more we make love, the more we want to make revolution. The more we make revolution, the more we want to make love.Revolutionary women are more beautiful.Make love, not war.Down with consumer society.The more you consume, the less you live.Commodities are the opium of the people.You can't buy happiness. Steal it.The economy is wounded - Lets hope it dies!I don't have time to write!!!Don't get caught up in the spectacle of opposition. Oppose the spectacle.No forbidding allowed.The freedom of others extends mine infinitely.

Description: A FLASH MOB STYLE ACT-UP (Officilly Approaved Demonstration on the street) against the Traffic Control Law & Security Policy in Tokyo,Japan.It's Ain't No Illegal, It's A Detournement Resistance and Culture Jaming.

Description: Excerpts from René Viénet's 1973 film 'Can Dialectics Break Bricks?' 'Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is what you'll encounter in René Viénet's outrageous refashioning of a Chinese fisticuff film. An influential Situationist, Viénet stripped the soundtrack from a run-of-the-mill Hong Kong export and lathered on his own devastating dialogue. . . . A brilliant, acerbic and riotous critique of the failure of socialism in which the martial artists counter ideological blows with theoretical thrusts from Debord, Reich and others. . . . Viénet's target is also the mechanism of cinema and how it serves ideology.'

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