The Situationist International movement of the 1950s and 60s culminated philosophically in the publication of Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (Google Books has it here.) in 1967, and politically in the May '68 uprisings in France.
The ideas that informed the movement have never been more relevant (I mean, come ON! Society of the SPECTACLE!? Just the name alone...! How many "bold-faced" names flashed through your head when you read "spectacle"? ...EXACTLY!) and Benrik, a Situationist-styled performance art duo, aim to mass-market (ironically?) the construction of situations via a somewhat anarchistic app, available now.
Read more here (Please!).
