Cambridge Lettrist and Situationist Society (CLASS) and Alytus Biennial Reversion into Abolition of Culture and Distribution of its Aberrant Bacillus Right Abroad – Committee (ABRACADABRA-C). DAMTP Congress Newspaper. Alytus, Lithuania: CLASS, 2010-. 10 issues to date (8-12 pp. each), 42 x 29.5 cm.; black ink on white stock.

DAMTP (DAta Miners Travailleurs Psychique) is a group out of Alytus, Lithuania. The name is an ironic reference to the famed Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. According to the group, “this is an act of Qunatum Lettrism – and allows us to create quantum superimposition whereby we can interfere with their experiments via instant transfer of data between us and them.”

DAMPTP does not consider itself pro-situ. To quote the group, “We see ourselves perhaps as situationists in the sense we are surrealist or dadaists. we are revolutionary psychic workers. we utilise and develop situatiuonist ideas…[However] we are also critical of situationist praxis (eg expulsions, fetishisation of art”

DAMTP’s publications are “situgraphic – no top nor bottom settled, neither left nor right sides fixed. Every page could be considered to be the first. The 8 page newspaper combines texts and images in hypergraphic and situgraphic form by the DAta Miners Travailleurs Psychique”

The group’s members include the London Psychogeographic Associate (LPA), Lipovy Tsvet, Polaris, Dada Post, Transient art strike biennial supreme council of one, etc. Stewart Home, Luther Blissett and Fabian Tompsett’s mark is clear from the look of the journals.

All of DAMTP publications (the newspaper and more) are available on their website at http://alytusbiennial.com/publications.html . You can also learn more about DAMPT’s origins and influences at http://alytusbiennial.com/about-apie.html

Not in the trade or on OCLC. This is a confidential journal with a targeted audience.

The Bad Days Will End (for Libertarian and Council Communism) Sommerville MA: Merrymount publications, 2000-2001. 5 issues in 4 volumes (12-22 p. each), 21 x 29.5 cm.; plain white (or blue) wrappers with text in black.

This short-lived journal describes itself as “a quarterly bulletin advocating communism — the overthrow of capitalism by the international working class and the creation of a stateless and truly egalitarian society from below” To our knowledge, 5 issues were published in 2000 and 2001.

This bulletin is of interest because its third issue is devoted to the Situationist International.  Contents:”Back to the Situationist International”by Gilles Dauve (originally published in English by American pro-Situationist Journal “Red Eye” in 1979); “The Necessity and Impossibility of Anti-Activism” by J. Kellstadt (original piece); “The Work of Ideology” (initially written and published by American pro-Situationist group Point-Blank! in the first and only issue of their journal). A Review “Saved from Drowning” by Michael Seidman is also included

Rare in the trade, with no other copy found. OCLC lists holdings at Michigan (full set) and Wisconsin (one issue only).

Bauhaus Situationiste (sic). Die Situationisten – Alternativ Documenta 30 / 6 bis 6 / 9 1972. Kassel: Bauhaus Situationiste, 1972. Illustrated large cardboard sleeve (approx 50 x 75 cm unfolded) with 7 documents as issued (+3 additional documents in our copy, not usually found)

Large cardboard sleeve containing a variety of documents (as seen below), issued by the Bauhaus Situationiste (Jorgen Nash et al.) to protest the Documenta 5, held in Kassel in October 1972.

Our copy includes 3 additional documents relative to the actual Documenta 5: a map of the exhibition, a short information guide, and a tourist leaflet (“Welcome to Kassel”)

Rare, with only a single copy at the MACBA. OCLC lists no other copies.

Available for sale (P.O.R) or trade. More information upon request. [SOLD]

Lacout, Dominique et al.. De la Misere en Milieu Lyceen (et Autres Scolarises). Paris: Passer Outre / Maspero, 1969. 16 p.;  21 x 13 cm; olive green wrappers with text in black.

Pamphlet inspired by Mustapha Khayati’s “De La Misere en Milieu en Etudiant”, (released amidst scandal 3 years earlier in Strasbourg), and published as a Supplément to issue 4 of the magazine “Passer Outre” (a Maspero imprint)

Some illustrations in the text. Dominique Lacout, now a Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure but then only a 20-year old student, is known as one of the authors.

Full text available at http://www.archyves.net/html/Documents/69-misere-milieulyceentotal.pdf

Rare, with only 4 copies on OCLC (Yale, Nanterre, IISG, CIRA)

Le Glou, Jacques. Pour en Finir avec le Travail: Chansons du Proletariat Revolutionnaire, Vol. 1. Paris: Editions Musicales du Grand Soir, 1974. 30 x 30 cm.; white “gatefold” case with text in white. Total run time: 29 min. 15 s.

First (and only) volume of the “Chansons du Proletariat Revolutionnaire”, produced by Jacques le Glou and performed by Jacques Marchais and Vanessa Achloum [pseudonym for Jacqueline Danno]. Songs’ lyrics printed inside the cover, and a brief text by Jacques Le Glou (« Le Détournement dans la chanson et la révolution ») on back cover

Lyrics for some of the song are attributed to Jacques Le Glou and Alice Debord, while others are attributed to Guy Debord (“La Java des Bons-Enfants” and “Chant des journees de Mai”). Debord is also responsible for the detourned historical notices in in the inside covers (Correspondance Vol. 5, p. 117)

Track list: L’Bon Dieu dans la merde (3 min 26 s), La Java des Bons-Enfants (2 min 07s), La Makhnovstchina (4 min 14 s), Les journées de Mai (3 min 53 s), La vie s’écoule, la vie s’enfuit (2 min 55 s), Il est cinq heures (2 min 57 s), Chanson du CMDO (3 min 20 s), La mitraillette (2 min 47 s), Les bureaucrates se ramassent à la pelle (3 min 58 s).

Song renditions, as well as extensive information on this production , are available at Namaste (http://namaste-baba.blogspot.com/2012/01/pour-en-finir-avec-le-travail-great.html)

Art-ist Contemporary Art Magazine. Art-ist Vol.1, No.1: Situationist International. Istanbul, Turkey: Berlin Revolver Corp, June 2004. 290 p.; 26 x 21 cm.; black covers with text in green (inside text is green and black on white stock). Bilingual text in English and Turkish

Lengthy (~300 p.) first issue of Turkish art magazine ART-IST, entirely devoted to the Situationist International. When asked to contribute articles to the issue, Alexander Brener and Barbara Schurz stated: “we think that to contribute an article about the S.I. for an art magazine is shameful. We think that is unethical and enforces the all-out confusion and general ignorance”. As such, they recommend that the issue be transformed into “a revolutionary theoretical weapon”and took full control over it.

Includes numerous, often original contributions by Situ experts, post-Situ and situ-philes: Anselm Jappe (“Were the Situationists the last avant-garde?”) , T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith (“Why Art can’t kill the Situationist International?’), Luther Blisset, Tom McDonough (“Delirious Paris: Mapping as a paranoid-critical activity”), Roberto Ohrt (“Guy Debord, Avant-garde, and Socialisme ou Barbarie”), Mikkel Bolt Ramsussen (“Situationist Map of Denmark”), Charles Radcliff (“Pre-situationist days in Nothing Hill”) and many others, including a good share of Turkish scholars.

Heavily illustrated with photos of IS members, detournements, maps, etc.

Surprisingly rare, with only 7 OCLC copies and none to be found in the trade. 

New Space. The End of Work (is the Beginning of Life). Chicago, IL: n.p. [Solidarity Press], n.d. [July 1974]. 1 p.; 36.5 x 24 cm.; blue text/illustrations on green stock.

Rubber-stamped in red ink: “New Space, 1509 N. Halsted, 11, Chicago Ill. 60622. New Space is Solidarity’s ‘successor’, and is the distributor of these posters. This is a poster in comic form with calls for ‘the end of work’ and for controlling your own life. Put out (mostly) by anarchists, it could just have well been done by Situationists”

Beni 31-32

Debord, Guy. Rapporto Sulla Costruzione Della Situazioni. n.p. [Torino, Italy]: n.p. [Internationale Situationniste], n.d. [05/1958]. 19p.; 22.9 x 16.8 cm.; off-white/beige wrappers with text in black

First Italian edition of “Rapport sur la Construction des Situations”, which was originally printed in Belgium by Marcel Marien in 1,000 copies. This text was used the chief preparatory element of the founding conference of the ‘Internationale Situationniste’ in July 1957 in Cosio d’Arroscia. It delineates the views of the founders of the IS (Michèle Bernstein, Guy-Ernest Debord, Giuseppe Pinot-gallizio, Asger Jorn, Walter Olmo, Piero Simondo, Elena Verrone and Ralph Rumney).

Translation by Sergio Corino and Augusta Rivabella (Pinot-Gallizio’s wife), with a short preface by Pinot-Gallizio. As a careful reader noted, “The Danish dedication…should read: “To Torben Brostrøm from Debord and Nash”. Torben Brostrøm (born 1927) is a very well-known Danish literary critic. Obviously, the pamphlet was a gift from Jørgen Nash (and, in absentia, Debord) to Brostrøm.”

While the original French edition is rare, with only a few copies on OCLC, the Italian translation is virtually unheard of: no copies in the trade or on OCLC, though the Museum of Contemporary Arts of Barcelona (MACBA) owns a copy.

Raspaud & Voyer 106.

Another interlude: the first complete English translation of Guy Debord & Asger Jorn’s collaborative book “Memoires”. Below is the entry in my friend Ian’s blog. It was my privilege to contribute to this work. Click here for the PDF file: memoires-debord-jorn (1)

The document has been put together as a facsimile of the original – with  Debord’s detourned text juxtaposed in spatial relationship with Jorn’s “supporting structures”.

Every word of the text is appropriated – in a few cases from Debord’s own works (including “Report on the Construction of Situations” and the script of “Howls in Favour of Sade”). Other identifiable sources are the plays of Shakespeare, the oratory of Boussett, Baudelaire’s prose poetry, Stevenson’s “Treasure Island”(!), along with snippets from Apollinaire, Racine, Edgar Allen Poe, François Sagan and de Gaulle amongst many, many others.

Original archives from the Operationist Group, a small pro-situ group active in the 2010s. The group’s website is at https://operationist.wordpress.com/

Operationist Group. Operationist Group Archives. n.p.: Operationist Group, n.d. [2010s]. Includes: 2 handmade books (“Operationist Archives 2012-2015”, ca. 100 pages and 12 color detournements, and “Theses on the Spectacle and the Cold War”, ca. 200 pages with B&W illustrations) and 3 handmade detournements.

In these archives: “Manifesto on the Political Standing of the Letters”, “On Specialist Language – Tyrone Slothrop”, “A Critique of the Recuperation of Everyday Life – R.M. Rogers”, “Negation and Art – R.M. Rogers, Saint-Anna”; “Notes on the Reading of Guy Debord – Saint-Anna”; “A Brief Commentary on Media: (The Spectacle is the Message) – Tyrone Slothrop”; “Comments on Intersectionality and Totality – R.M. Rogers”; “On Human Nature, Hustory and Labor – R.M. Rogers”; “Official Publications of the Operationist Group”(which includes a “Response to Bill Brown’s ‘Not Bored’ 42) and followed by a set of two dozen detournements, in Situationist style