A poetics of everyday LIFE — GUY Debord and the Situationist International

• Main Author: Eurico Carvalho
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal da Paraíba 2016-04-01
• Series: Aufklärung
• Subjects: comunicação; Guy Debord; Internacional Situacionista; vida quotidiana e totalidade
• Online Access: http://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/arf/article/view/24891

In this paper, I will focus on the nature of the Situationist concept of everyday life, in order to highlight not only its objective content but also its ambiguity. Moreover, I will demonstrate that there is, from the perspective of a poetics of everyday life, and in spite of the diversity of development stages of the Situationist International, an undeniable unity of its revolutionary program.