Coming after a few months of neglect I have made a small update to the blog today – adding links to the existing English translations of Internationale Situationniste #5, #6, & #7 .
You can visit them via the menu above, or directly:
Note that every issue is fully translated except #5 – where one article is yet to be done (Prelude to the Scenic Unit “Nobody and the Others”). I am currently working on this and hope to have it completed by the end of January.
Three of the shorter articles from IS#1 have been newly translated and uploaded.
They can be accessed from the “IS#1” tab on the menu above, or directly with the links below:
Two more articles from IS#1 have been newly translated and uploaded.
They can be accessed from the “IS#1” tab on the menu above, or directly with the links below:
A new translation from IS #1 has just been uploaded to the site.
Either follow this link or use the menu bar in the header to access the contents of IS #1.
This article is “The Struggle for Control of the New Techniques of Conditioning” (La lutte pour le controle des nouvelles techniques de conditionnement)
You’ll find it here.
(Note: you can access a linked list of all the proofread articles from the first issue by clicking on “IS #1” on the menu above.)
First some fairly insignificant news – but which could save you a little typing. You can now get to this blog directly by typing isinenglish.com into your web-browser of choice.
Next – there should be a steady flow of new translations from the first issue of Internationnale Situationniste appearing on the site over the next few weeks. I’m hoping to have issue #1 completed by the beginning of May.
To make me feel a bit more like an academic I have uploaded my translation of “Memoires” to Academia.edu. It is actually a slightly updated version ( with 2 minor corrections to the text) – so if you really must have have the most “correct” version you can download it from there.
You can find it at:
https://www.academia.edu/11522988/Memoires_-_Guy_Debord_and_Asger_Jorn_English_Facsimile_
Given the definite cross-over in potential interest I thought I should take the time to to post a link to my other blog, which is documenting my collection of tracts, posters and ephemera related to the Mai 68 “événements” in France.
You’ll find it at https://mai68inenglish.wordpress.com
I’ve been neglecting it quite a lot recently – so for the next week or so I’ll be concentrating getting more translations of tracts and posters on-line.
I have just uploaded a new translation from the first issue of Internationale Situationniste.
As mentioned in previous posts I have completed drafting translations of the contents of the first issue, and I’ll be adding them to the site as they are fully proofread against the French. Once the entire issue has been proofread I’ll upload it as a “facsimile” PDF.
This article is “The Freedom to Read What? Some Nonsense (La liberté pour quoi lire ? Des bêtises)
You’ll find it here.
(Note: you can access a linked list of all the proofread articles from the first issue by clicking on “IS #1” on the menu above.)
I have realised that it would be of value to some people to make some information available on the sources of Debord’s detournements (most derived from Boris Donné’s excellent book “Pour Memoires”), and the sources of the pre-existing English translations I have used.
I’ve spent a few days tidying up my working notes to make this information available to those who are interested.
The notes are split into 3 different documents related to the 3 sections of the book. Memoires is unpaginated, I have used a numbering scheme (also used by Donné) where the first page of Jorn’s inkwork combined with Debord’s text is denoted as “Page 1”.
Memoires Notes – Part 1: June 1952
Internationale Situationniste in English 