Movement
Situationist International
Explore in the Atlas →A radical avant-garde collective (1957–1972) led by Guy Debord, whose 'unitary urbanism', psychogeography and the dérive critiqued the functionalist, spectacle-driven capitalist city and called for the collective reinvention of everyday urban life.
Power Collectivity
Details
- Origin
- France
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Protocol performed
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- associated with New Babylon
Referenced by
- Guy Debord associated with
- Eyal Weizman critiqued
Sources
- Simon Sadler. The Situationist City. MIT Press, 1998.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Situationist International." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/situationist-international/. Accessed July 17, 2026.