Situationism: A Voice From The Fringes

There’s much to be learned from studying movements that thought they were the wave of the future, and weren’t. To begin with, there’s a distinctive tone of strident triumphalism that most movements doomed to fail seem to adopt, some at the very beginning of their trajectories, others once they pass their peak and start down the long slope into irrelevance. Learning to catch that note when it appears in the political and cultural movements of the present, by listening carefully to past examples, ...