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Debord’s “The Naked City” – mapped onto Google Maps

I recently found something I put together a few years ago, then promptly forgot about. It is Guy Debord’s “Naked City”  mapped onto Google’s map of Paris. I have actually made on overlay for Google Maps that shows each area … Continue reading

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Three more CMDO détourned comics

Original detourned comic strip is printed on p.195 of Vienet, “Enragés et Situationnistes dans le Mouvement des Occupations” (Gallimard, 1968) Original detourned comic strip is printed on p.173 of Vienet, “Enragés et Situationnistes dans le Mouvement des Occupations” (Gallimard, 1968) … Continue reading

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Tarzan – Cop of the Jungle

Original detourned comic strip is printed on p 180 of Vienet, “Enragés et Situationnistes dans le Mouvement des Occupations” (Gallimard, 1968)

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Another detourned comic strip

There will be a flood of these over the next week or so – so strap yourself in! This is possibly the most self-referentially humorous of all the détourned comic strips that were so well used during the May 1968 … Continue reading

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The Return of the Durutti Column – detourned comics

I was gearing up to begin to translate this famous document that was used by the Stasbourg AFGES to advertise the pamphlet ‘On the Poverty of Student Life’. Then I came across this on the intenet: The Return of the … Continue reading

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Progress Report – Detourned Comic Strips

I have almost completed laying out the first chapter (of three) of Guy Debord & Ager Jorn’s ‘Memoires’. Which is actually only about a quarter of the work – as it is the shortest! For a side-project from this side-project … Continue reading

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