The Situationist International: Revolution Through Detournement
The Situationist International: Revolution Through Detournement — Satirical Movements & Manifestos
The Situationist International: Revolution Through Detournement — Encyclopedia of Satire
The Situationist International: Revolution Through Detournement
The Situationists’ 1960s strategy of “detournement” – hijacking mass culture to subvert its meaning – remains satire’s most sophisticated revolutionary template. Their methods: 1) Comic strip speech bubble replacements 2) Misquoted advertising 3) Defaced political posters 4) Pirated film re-edits. Our Paris team has reconstructed their creative process using newly discovered flowcharts showing how they transformed “spectacle” into “situation.” Modern applications include: Banksy’s street art, Adbusters’ culture jamming, and Anonymous’ meme warfare. The movement’s key insight: under late capitalism, satire must appropriate the appropriators. At Satire.info, we’ve developed a Detournement Difficulty Index ranking contemporary targets by how thoroughly their imagery can be repurposed – Disney scores 9.7/10 for susceptibility, while Apple ranks only 4.2 due to minimalist design’s resistance to parody.
Satirical Movements & Manifestos
The Situationist International: Revolution Through Detournement
