Ben Juers
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Published in
November 2012, no. 346
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Published in
October 2012, no. 345
Ben Juers reviews 'The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International' by McKenzie Wark
Ben Juers
Thursday, 05 July 2012
Jean-Luc Godard’s film about young French revolutionaries, La Chinoise (1967), was described by Manny Farber as having ‘a suspicious sideways movement […] sliding sideways, crab fashion, [that] bars progress to its inhabitants, keeps turning the actors whirligig fashion without revealing anything about them’. Named after graffiti from the Paris uprising of May 1968, McKenzie Wark’s The Beach Beneath the Street takes on the Situationist International (SI) with what look, at first, to be similarly crab-like gestures.
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Published in
July–August 2012, no. 343