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An example of a situation-creating technique is the dérive. The dérive
is the first step toward an urban praxis. It is a stroll through the
city by several
people who are out to understand the "psychogeographical articulation
of the modern city". The strollers attempt an interpretive reading of
the
city, an architectural understanding. They look at the city as a
special instance of repressed desires. At the same time, they engage in
"playful
reconstructive behavior". Together they turn the city around. They see
in the city unifying and empowering possibilities in place of the
present
fragmentation and pacification. This "turning around" or détournment is
a key strategic concept of the Situationists. Détournment is a
dialectical tool. It is
an "insurrectional style" by which a past form is used to show its own
inherent untruth-- an untruth masked by ideology. It can be applied to
billboards, to
written texts, to films, to cartoons, etc., as well as to city spaces.
Marx used it when he "turned Hegel on his head." He used the dialectic
in the study of
history to expose the ideological nature of Hegel's idealism. The
Situationists use détournment to demonstrate the scandalous poverty of
everyday life
despite the plenty of commodities. They attempted to demonstrate the
contrast between what life presently is and what it could be. They
wanted to
rupture the spell of the ideology of our commodified consumer society
so that our repressed desires of a more authentic nature could come
forward. The
situation is based on liberated desires rather than alienated ones.
What these desires are cannot be stated a priori. They will emerge in
the revolutionary
process of situation-creation, of détournment. Presumably, communality,
unification, and public urban space will emerge as more desirable than
commodification, fragmentation, and privatization.
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