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Lapierre was a radical – a friend of the Marxist theorist Guy Debord and the situationist poet Alice Becker-Ho – with no clear path to revolution.

From The Guardian • May 15, 2018

His malaise spreads through the museum, culminating in a gobsmacking sequence in which a situationist ape impersonator menaces wealthy patrons at a black-tie dinner.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2017

The Parisian situationist Guy Debord once wrote: “All that once was directly lived has become mere representation. All real activity has been channelled into the global construction of the spectacle.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2016

The punk narrative – beautifully put together by the likes of Greil Marcus and Jon Savage – tends to make it sound like a situationist fantasy rather than the dull conformity it became.

From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2012

Yet by refusing to acknowledge absolutes, the situationist can defend, for example, the World War II concentration-camp doctor who saved the lives of 3,000 Rumanian Jewish women by secretly performing abortions on them.

From Time Magazine Archive