[UA] Re: UA digest, Vol 1 #259 - 12 msgs

[Bailey Watts]

>Message: 10
>From: med12 at cornell.edu
>Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:38:36 -0400 (EDT)
>To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
>Subject: Re: [UA] SI in UA
>Reply-To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
>
>What's situationism?
>
>(I'm figuring I can't be the only person who doesn't know, or mroe people
>would've responded to this thread).
>
>-Mike

Situational ethics taken to a logical extreme.  Situationism demands 
reacting to specific situations as they occur.  Situational ethics works 
because situationism refuses to deal in absolutes.
Because anything less than the true situation should not be dealed with 
symbolic representation is considered evil as is the media and all forms of 
mediation and experiences which are mediated.
Debord postulates a concept called the Spectacle which is the market of 
image as commodity.  This represents subjectivity where images define 
existence, absolutism which refuses to acknowledge situations as they are, 
metaphor, and use of culture references as signals for other meaning as they 
require all to take part in mediated experience and consuption of passive 
mediation to have any basis for communication.

Ken can probably describe it better.  Check out www.nothingness.org  If 
memory serves they still have some decent things.  The two books you'd want 
to read are Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord and Revolutions of 
Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem.
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