Hosts Kia Milbin, Nadia Idol, and Jeremy Gilbert discuss situationism, exploring its history, key figures like Guy Debord, and its influence on punk and radical culture. They analyze the movement's origins in the Letterist International and its critique of the spectacle, drawing on Henri Lefebvre's theories of everyday life and Socialisme ou Barbarie's councilism. The episode also reflects on the group's internal expulsions and the relevance of situationist ideas to contemporary issues like social media and capitalist realism.
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