First of all, it's the opposite, punk was (supposedly) influenced by situationism, which really amounts to nothing more than the fact that the manager of the Sex Pistols appropriated situationist techniques--only I personally think that this appropriation was a clear example of "recuperation". Teenage
Exhibit 1: I fail to see how not knowing and not caring what one is doing has anything to do with liberation. Compare this to Detroit techno, where, although some artists may not initially have known what they were doing, they most certainly did care, as evidenced by Juan Atkins very successful articulation of Detroit techno as embodying a particular aesthetic approach to musical creation. 'Marcus quotes the musician Paul Westerberg as saying that he became enthralled with the Sex Pistols because “It was obvious that they didn’t know what they were doing and they didn’t care.” That statement is the core belief of all the movements that Marcus explores. He artfully shows that this is not a declaration of nihilism but a striving for liberation from what the Situationists called “The Spectacle.”' http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvardreview/OnlineJournal/HRO_1/reviews/MarcusMcWhirter.html Exhibit 2: Using situationist-looking graphics doesn't make you a situationist. Note how the album covers are "eagerly sought after by collectors today"--precisely a recuperation within the context of consumer culture. 'Not much later, Reid placed his collage style -- commingling mass media texts with cut-outs -- at the disposal of Malcolm Maclaren, also a King Mob veteran. Maclaren's management -- not to mention his manufacture -- of the Sex Pistols, looks suspiciously like a cynical experiment in Situationist social engineering. Some of the graphics which adorn Sex Pistols album covers (eagerly sought after by collectors today) Reid had previously placed in pro-situ publications.' http://www.primitivism.com/situationism.htm ~David On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Philip McGarva <philipmcga...@gmail.com> wrote: > situationism was punk, see g. marcus 'lipstick traces' :^)
