Call It Sleep Part 1

Call It Sleep is the first visual work produced in the United States which makes use of the situationist technique of detournement - the devaluation and reuse of present and past cultural production to form a superior theoretical and practical unity.

This is not as good as "The Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord, but still has many important points from the american perspective. it is a VHS rip, a little poor quality, but still. Here it is. Enjoy...

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[freskerdelmonte]

Thanks egoD. this is good stuff

[HousePlantzzz]

@raizon36 what dont you get about this? you dog.

[LovexandxRage]

@LordShivasServant Similar ideas, new material conditions. As long as oppression evolves and technologies revolutionize, so will strategies of the proletariat. Hegel said what Fichte said, Marx said what Hegel said, Lukacs said what Marx said, Debord grabbed em all in some way and now every post-anarchist has a base in the SI's ideas.

[LordShivasServant]

@LovexandxRage BlackRabbit here (just now checked my oooooold email inbox): Over the past year or so I've come to learn that these ideas aren't new, very few "revolutionary ideas" are. Just that the culture (by way of the State) is very sophisticated in eradicating, demonizing, and tabooing anything that strays from it's influence.

Taking acid helped too...

PS: love the name :D

[fiddlerfart]

i thought this was about henry roth

[raizon36]

I never got the point of situationism, it's just Marx's basic ideas on alienation and commodity fetishism remixed with a bunch of made up jargon and adulterated with anarchism and some sociological concepts. I say just hand people an excerpt from the 1844 manuscripts and a dime bag of weed and we'll have a million little Guy Debords running around.

[kutthroat84]

this is like Baudrillard on hyper reality

[LovexandxRage]

I guess it could be said that this is "pre-crimethinc" BlackRabbit. Nearly all crimethinc texts have plagiarized Situationist ideas to some extent.

[smileya]

Full version of Call It Sleep (Including the last few minutes cut off here) is here: go to archive -d o t- org and search for call it sleep.

[WhatIsNotSeen]

5 stars!