A Short Situationist Reading List

To begin with, here is a short reading list of some books which may be of interest if you would like to read more about some of the ideas we have covered in the course.

The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
MIT Press, 1995

Revolution of Everyday Life - Raoul Vaneigem
Rebel Press, 1983

Comments on the Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
Verso, 1998

Situationist International Anthology - Ken Knabb (ed)
Bureau of Public Secrets, 2007

Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents -Tom McDonough
MIT Press, 2004

The Situationist International: A User’s Guide - Simon Ford
Black Dog, 2005

The Most Radical Gesture: Situationist International in a Postmodern Age - Sadie Plant
Routledge, 1992

The Situationist City- Simon Sadler
MIT Press, 1999

In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni: The Situationist International- Stefan Zweifel & Juri Steiner
JRP Editions, 2006

The Arcades Project – Walter Benjamin
Harvard University Press, 2002

Psychogeography - Merlin Coverley
Pocket Editions, 2006

Wanderlust: A History of Walking – Rebecca Solnit
Verso, 2006

London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
Penguin, 2003

How to be Idle – Tom Hodgkinson
Penguin, 2005

How to be Free – Tom Hodgkinson
Penguin, 2007

Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK
MIT Press, 2005

Leaving the 20^th Century: Incomplete Work of the Situationist International – Christopher Grey (ed)
Rebel Press, 1998

What is Situationism: A Reader – Stewart Home (ed)
AK Press, 1996

Guy Debord: Critical Lives – Andrew Merrifield
Reaktion, 2007

There are also a number of texts you can read for free on-line. Some good places to start are:

nothingness.org
The Bureau of Public Secrets
The Situationist International Online