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"What are the organisational perspectives of life in a society which authentically "reorganises production on the basis of the free and equal association of the producers"? Work would more and more be reduced as an exterior necessity through the automation of production and the socialisation of vital goods, which would finally give complete liberty to the individual."
The Situationist Manifesto, 1960
http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/9
"Henceforth, we propose an autonomous organisation of the producers of the new culture, independent of the political and union organisations which currently exist, as we dispute their capacity to organise anything other than the management of that which already exists."
The Situationist Manifesto, 1960
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@tijl
> I don't know the situationists
Revolutionary Self-Theory is a good introduction to the basic ideas;
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/larry-law-revolutionary-self-theory
Unfortunately -as with post-structuralism - the foundational texts were written in dense philosophical French, and translated into even denser English by academics. I found Society of the Spectacle a hard slog. It's widely considered to be the core text, along with Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigm (which I keep meaning to read).
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> we can't seem to create organisational structures that aren't squashed, perverted or co-opted away
The @situationist theorists explained this through the core concept of "the Spectacle" and a dynamic they called "recuperation".
The idea is that a spectacular society (eg pre-collapse USSR or late capitalism) can't create anything new. It thrives by recuperating structures created independently of it, and absorbing them into its own logic. Open source foundations are a good example.
@n_dimension
> After I was done with it, it basically became a sovcit pamphlet
Funny that. In the context of what the US federal government has become, the idea of declaring independence from it is starting to look a whole lot less crazy ...
https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-70-problem-hard-truths-about
"At a higher stage, everyone will become an artist, i.e., inseparably a producer-consumer of total culture creation, which will help the rapid dissolution of the linear criteria of novelty. Everyone will be a situationist so to speak, with a multidimensional inflation of tendencies, experiences, or radically different "schools" - not successively, but simultaneously."
The Situationist Manifesto, 1960
http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/9
Sounds a bit like social media. Hmm ...
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