situationism

Also sit·u·a·tion·al·ism

[sich-oo-ey-shuh-niz-uhm]

noun

Psychology.

1. the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.

Other Word Forms

• situationist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of situationism¹

situation + -ism

Example Sentences

You can look at it and there are deep and profound things to say about where it fits in the history of art and situationism.

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It’s a strategy borrowed from situationism, a French movement that influenced British punk’s artier factions.

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Statements by the Italian artist Lucia Fontana, the John Reed Club of New York and Guy Debord, the leader of Situationism, announce the collapse of capitalism and art.

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Sharon cites, as models, the happenings of Allan Kaprow and the Situationism of Guy Debord, who devised wayward city tours in search of the “liberation of everyday life.”

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I’ll discuss this further in the section below regard the insights of black situationism.”

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