What's it all about?

On the cornersoul website you'll find some short articles written by myself over the last few years, along with a selection of texts covering anarchism and situationist thought. While there's now a few websites carrying most of the available situationist texts I've decided to concentrate on some of the lesser known texts and tried to seperate them in to subject areas rather than by date as you'll normally find them elsewhere. I've also dispensed with the idea of pre-situ and post-situ as I feel it's possible to find as much relevance, if not more relevance, in a text from 1957 as it is in something written today.

One of the common complaints about situationist writings is that they are difficult to understand. Having spent a few years reading through English translations of Debord's "Society of The Spectacle" and Vaneigem's "The Revolution of Everyday Life" I have to agree it can be hard going sometimes, but ultimately worth the time and effort.

I haven't included either of those texts here but you can follow links to complete online versions in the links section. What I have included is a list of definitions and short history of the Situationist International (SI) by Tom Vague - The Boy Scout's Guide To The Situationist International . It's a basic introduction but well worth reading before wading in to some of the more detailed writings.

In the Spectacular Times section you can read Larry Law's renowned series of booklets. They are probably the easiest to understand introduction to Situationist ideas around. I've tried to stay true to the original booklets so each page has been scanned as in the booklets. The images may take a little time to load, shouldn't be a problem if you have broadband/adsl internet access but I'm not sure about dialup. If you have any problems email me.

All the articles and texts are regularly indexed to make it easy to search for a particular term. Just click on the search link, enter the keyword(s), and you'll find an extensive list of the writings where the term(s) are used. By seperating the texts by subject rather than date I hope to dispel the idea that situationist thought is somehow academic or historical. Rest assured it's neither, and the relevance of the situationist analysis grows as the process of recuperation increases. As Vaneigem said:

"This work is part of a subversive current of which the last has not yet been heard. It's significance should escape no one!
In any case, as time will show, no one is going to escape its implications!"
Raoul Vaneigem, "The Revolution Of Everyday Life"