noted. 10/04/2011

• Situationist International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Recuperation

     

     

     

     

    

     The commercialization of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara's image for profit is a prototypical example of recuperation.

     

     

     

    To survive, the spectacle must maintain social control and effectively handle all threats to the social order. Recuperation, a concept first proposed by Guy Debord,^[65] is the process by which the spectacle intercepts socially and politically radical ideas and images, commodifies them, and safely incorporates them back within mainstream society.^[65] More broadly, it may refer to the appropriation or co-opting of any subversive works or ideas by mainstream media. It is the opposite of détournement, in which conventional ideas and images are commodified with radical intentions.^[65]

     

• Listen, Anarchist! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Listen, Anarchist! is an influential 1987 essay by Chaz Bufe on the internal dynamics of the American anarchist movement.^[1]

     

    In this essay, Bufe ^[2] launches heavy criticism against anarcho-primitivists, including Fredy Perlman and the Vancouver Five eco-terrorist group, as well as the publications Fifth Estate, Resistance, The Spark, and Open Road.^[1] In a section entitled "What Can Be Done?", Bufe advocates minimal use of violence in revolutionary political struggle, condemning the vanguardist "urban guerillas" of insurrectionary anarchism. He criticizes these and other so-called "lifestyle" anarchists in the movement for deliberately alienating mainstream society, and falling to victim to dangerous irrationality and mysticism. ^[3]

     

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