After a long hiatus — my books have finally come out of their boxes, as we finalized our move — I am happy to be posting again on this blog.

I would like to take the opportunity to share the birth of the Situationist International Research Network (SIRN) https://www.situationistresearch.net/. For the first time, a centralized resource is now available for scholars to connect around their shared interest in the SI and related movements.

SIRN defines itself as “a network of academics and independent researchers working on the Situationist International and related topics. It seeks to provide news, information, contacts and other resources for people interested in undertaking or engaging with peer-reviewed research on the Situationists. Our goal is to facilitate international, interdisciplinary and multilingual collaboration between researchers and to promote peer-reviewed academic research on the Situationists to a wider audience”

SIRN is led by Dr. Alastair Hemmens, with Prof. Gabriel Zacarias as Deputy Director. The two scholars most recently co-authored he Situationist International: A Critical Handbook (London: Pluto Press, 2020). Members hail from a range of academic fields, including Philosophy & Aesthetics, Literature, Art History, History, Sociology.. They include Tom Bunyard, Francois Coadou, Bertrand Cochard, Patrick Marcolini, Sophie Dolto, Fabrice Flahutez, Amy Grandvoinet, Eric-John Russell, Vanessa Theodoropoulou, Anna Trespeuch-Berthelot…

A list of bilingual resources is made available to scholars (https://www.situationistresearch.net/resources), and a quarterly newsletter is found here: https://www.situationistresearch.net/blog. If there is any news that you would like to be included in the next newsletter, please reach out to SIRN through their contact page here: https://www.situationistresearch.net/contact