What does SI stand for?

IN APRIL OF THIS YEAR, an original silver-plated edition of the Game of War, a military-strategy board game released in 1977 by the founder of the Situationist International, Guy Debord, was displayed at the "Form as Strategy" exhibition in New York at Columbia University's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for American Architecture.

When I interviewed Buck, we had a super dorky conversation about the origin of Situation's title, an anarchist art camp called the Situationist International (founded in the year, you guessed it, 1957).

Although he and his comrades in the Situationist International sketched out various models of opposition and struggle, and in fact inspired in part the rather spectacular May '68 events in France, whereby students and workers rebelled almost overthrew the existing government (see Feenberg and Freedman, 2001), Debord's notion of "the society of the spectacle" is monolithic and all-embracing.

This theme is taken up by Adam Barnard in his discussion of the Situationist International.

Ryder Smith), a psychiatrist who helped initiate the Dada movement; and Guy Debord (Randolph Curtis Rand), who led the similar French collective Situationist International in the late '50s and '60s.

[8] Guy Debord, 'Perspectives for Conscious Alterations in Everyday Life', in Situationist International Anthology, ed.

Translated by Ken Knabb as "On the Poverty of Student Life," in Situationist International Anthology, rev.

Since it wasn't included in Centraal Museum Utrecht's comprehensive traveling exhibition of Lettrist International (1952-56) and Situationist International (1957-72) ephemera and objects, "In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni: The Lost Paradise of the Situationist International" (December 15, 2006--March 11, 2007), I was unable to watch the film again or for the first time.