/lit/ - Literature

>any idiot can be famous and rich?

not _any_ idiot, but there are a lot of idiots out there in medialand. Sometimes fame anf fortune is merely a product of pure luck.

>>1906554

Most things are ineffectual - if you can have fun doing them, then that's at least a bonus.

>>1906700

Pretty much, but then not really. One of the main problems with Situationism was that it came out of a lot of other movements (lettrism has been mentioned, but also the COBRA movement was very important, as well as the more 'mainstream' leftist movements of the time), and all of these movements were effective opposed to authority, and they all had different perspectives. So they all fell out, all the time. Add to this the fact that Debord was by all accounts a bit of a cunt and you have an inherently fractious movement, destined to failure from the beginning.

On the other hand, there's still a lot of Situationist thinking about - as Debord may have predicted, a lot of the detournments of Situationism have been recuperated into the mainstream, and you see situationism everywhere in adverts, music, media of all sorts - the people making this stuff all read Debord at college.

On the other hand - yeah, three hands. Wooh, it's a situation, did I blow your mind? There are still political movements like Adbusters and other culture jammers who represent detournment and situationist ideas. Artists like Banksy and Blek le Rat still attempt to maintain the spirit. I was a member of Reclaim the Streets in the 1990s (yeh, oldfag, I know), and we held parties on the motorway and tried to break people out of their ecologically unsound, carbound spectacle, and we explicitly aligned ourselves with sutuationism. Similar things still crop up from time to time and situationism still isn't dead.

And, of course, pic related. I've never actually seen this show, so I hope this is the right douchebag