Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (2 of 2)

More 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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News & Politics

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• Situationist
• Anarchist
• Anarchy
• Detournement
• Viénet
• Debord
• Revolution

[OttOmOlOtOv]

Fine. I've read Kierkegaard and Sartre, and they did deal with similar subjects. But maybe Debord politicized the individualist existential point of view and introduced us to something beyond subjective solutions. Maybe, just maybe, it's not all in our heads and can be tackled at a societal as well as personal level. Just a thought.

[SpiritualActivism]

Ah, the days before they made humor illegal...

[DJpopel]

@klasomentas

Hardest for dem!

Peace brother, Ill check out your shit.

(You sayin genosse brings me back. I used to call my peeps that when I got drafted and would gt in crazy trouble!)

[klasomentas]

@DJpopel they say that 2011 will be the hardest year. Fuck 'em. Let's give them something to worry about, nicht wahr genosse?

[DJpopel]

"Cruel fortune! To die and never see the city hall in flames!"

best. line. ever.

ACAB. KlassenKampf

Global Slave Revolt 2011

long live the motherfucking resistance

[fishladder2]

羅時憲 : 唯識方隅

[mrbugler]

true.

[evelsteev]

Debord was an biter. Subjective alienation is nothing new. Kiekregaard wrote about it, even BEFORE Marx. Sartre perfected it, with his book, Nausea.

[rnrmst]

Vienet was great & totally under-appreciated. When I was first trying to get an understanding of the SI, it was his book that eased me in. I recommend the same for all you kiddies out there. Then onto the amazing, great Vaneigem who will make you believe everything you've learned thus far is wrong!

[satanmacnuggit]

Yeah but what's with all the gratuitous boobs (and endless incessant deadpan nattering) in Debord's SOS movie? I like this one better.