[Situationistisk International] NY-Irrealisme (det fjerde riges undergang og fald). Specialudgave Situationistisk Revolution 2. Øster Tørslev (Denmark) : Situationistisk International, March 1967. Pamphlet. 16 p.; ill.; 22 x 15 cm; gold-colored metallic cover with text printed in black.

The Scandinavian section of the S.I. published 3 issues of their review from 1962 to 1970. Martin was the editor of all three issues, with contributions from Michele Bernstein, Guy Debord, Attila Kotanya, Uwe Lausen, Raoul Vaneigem, Alexander Trocchi and Rene Vienet. Texts published were a mix of translations from Internationale Situationniste and originals.

NY-Irrealisme (Operation “Playtime”)  is a rare special supplement to Situationistisk Revolution 2. It serves as a catalogue for a second ‘manifestation of the Situationist International‘ held at Gallery Vestergade and featuring the works of Guy Debord, J.V.Martin (the Golden Ships series), Michele Bernstein (The Victory of the Spanish Republicans), and Rene Vienet (five Nothing Boxes). The content of this brochure is later reprinted in Situationistisk Revolution 2 in 1968.

There are no known copies in the trade, and only a handful through OCLC.

Khayati, Mustafa. La Verdad de Los Paises Subdesarrollados en la Revolucion Internacional Brooklyn: Diversion, [Spring 1973]. 4 p.; 21 x 29.5 cm. Illustrated front wrapper with B&W picture of a reclining topless woman with a speech balloon proclaiming “¡La emancipación de los trabajadores será la obra de ellos mismos!” 

Spanish translation by Julian Cordero of Khayati’s text, which had been originally published in Internationale Situationniste 11 as “Contribution servant à rectifier l’opinion du public sur la révolution dans les pays sous-développés” (1967). In Diversion 1 (1973), we find a notice about this text’s publication as well as about its circulation “in particular in the Dominican Republic as well as in New York”. The article was also translated into English (and widely distributed in the United States) the same year.

With the exception of the anouncement in Diversion, this translation is not accounted for. This is one of a few documents that attests to the spread of Situationist theses in Central America in the 1970s.

There are no other known copies in the trade or on OCLC.

Cronin, Isaac and Spangler, Tyler. The Dictionary of Unhapiness. Berkeley CA: Little Black Cart (Cruel Hospice), 2014. 80 p.; profusely ill.;  25.5 x 20 cm. Illustrated blue cover with text in black. Introduction by Cronin.

The result of a collaboration between Isaac Cronin – one of early pro-Situationists the late 1960s and the co-creator of the Council for the Eruption of the Marvelous – and contemporary visual artist Tyler Spangler (http://tylerspangler.com/), this book superposes digital collages with Situationist-influenced writing. Sample entries of this dictionary include:

AIR: Widely prevalent gas, soon to be the subject of an extensive marketing campaign

BULIMIA: Metaphor for the state of mind of the consumer that allows maximum growth of the market system

CHILD: Proof of disposable income

HUMAN RESOURCE: Concentration camp inmate who gets to take a shower with soap so long as he doesn’t complain about the lack of hot water

…and so forth.

Debord, Guy. Xã Hội Diễn Cảnh  La Société du Spectacle. Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Tri Thức, 2014. 295 p.; 20 x 12 cm. Illustrated white cover (similar to Gallimard’s) with text in black, publisher’s white band with text in black

First Vietnamese edition of Guy Debord’s masterpiece, translated by Nguyen Tong. Annotated and introduced by Nguyen Tong. Includes an extensive bibliography and an index in the postface.

Debord, Guy. スペクタクルの社会  La Société du Spectacle. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1993. 288 p.; 20 x 15 cm. Illustrated white cover with text in black, publisher’s white band with text in black

First Japanese edition of Guy Debord’s masterpiece, translated by Kinoshita Makoto. Includes a postface by the translator on “History of the Situationist International” and “Notes on the translation”. The paperback edition was published 10 years later.

Frey, Edith; Frey, Theo; Garmault, Jean; Holl, Herbert. Pour une Critique de l’Avant-Gardisme: l’Unique et sa Propriete – Suivi de Documents Relatifs a l’Eclatement de l’Internationale Situationniste. Strasbourg: n.p., 1967. 12 p. (+9 loose sheets +2 loose double sheets); 27.3 x 21.6 cm.

Scarce, with only four copies on OCLC (Yale, Michigan, Internationale Institute of Social History, Getty Institute)

 Important pamphlet published by a group of recent SI excludees known as the “Garnautins” (Theo Frey, Jean Garnault, Herbert Holl and Edith Frey), and perhaps the earliest documented criticism of the S.I. Includes a pamphlet and 5 documents laid in the back cover: See below :

1) ” Circulaire de l’Internationale Situationniste” signed by Michèle Bernstein, Guy Debord, Mustapha Khayati, Donald Nicholson-Smith, René Vienet concerning the exclusion of Théo Frey, Jean Garnault and Herbert Holl following a meeting of the S.I. dated 15 January 1967 (1 page leaflet)

2) In response, a resignation letter entitled “La Vérité est révolutionnaire”, dated 16 January 1967 and signed by Théo Frey, Jean Garnault, Herbert Holl and Edith Frey (2-page leaflet)

3) Another leaflet entitled “De la merde en milieu situationniste”, dated 19 January 1967. Frey, Garnault and Holl attack Debord and Khayati and claim that they resigned from and were not excluded from the S.I. (3-page leaflet)

4) A photocopy of the supplement to Internationale Situationniste entitled “Attention ! Trois provocateurs”, dated 22 January 1967 and signed by Bernstein, Debord, Khayati, J.-V. Martin, Nicholson-Smith, Raoul Vaneigem, Vienet. Stapled to it is Frey, Garnault and Holl’s response, “Appel à tous les étudiants en état de porter les armes !, produit des « Scheidemann-Noske”, fictitiously signed by the Office des Etudiants de Berlin. Includes original text in German and translation in French

5) “Rien que de la merde, mais toute la merde” offers a more in-depth criticism of the S.I and Debord in particular. It is dated 2 February 1967 (5 page leaflet)

Vienet, Rene. La Dialectique Peut-elle Casser des Briques? Paris: n.p., 1973. 32 x 23,5 cm; ill.; double-sided color poster (front: ill. film screenshot, back: blue paper with text in black).

Film poster for Vienet’s famous detourned film. Front: illustrated screen filmost. Back:press reviews and film synopsis. A much larger poster was also issued.

Scarce. 2 copies in the trade, none on OCLC.