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The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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"Play and the Urban Realm", in The Ludic City. By the end of Savage Messiah, the utopian impulse of Situationist urbanism returns while the city is smashed, and even the police seem to fade into mere afterthought. Wark notes also the breakdown of divisions between subject and exteriority, incorporating a collective experience of the city as “psychogeography”. €�The benign professionalism of architecture and design had, in their opinion [situationists], led to a sterilization of the world that threatened to wipe out any sense of spontaneity and playfulness. The Situationists' focus on the city has been central to McDonough's choice of documents. (McDonough “Situationist Space,” pg. He seeks to redefine notions of the Situationists' urban critique, arguing that instead it persisted throughout the group's duration. Sadler, Simon, “A New Babylon. The City Is Wilder and Kinder Than You Think. Though I missed out on the Situationist art movement, the notion that I gather of it has always struck a certain chord with me, especially in regards to Detroit. Exploring the potential of public spaces. The Situationist International, led by Guy Debord and central to the Paris uprising in May 1968, published many incendiary texts on politics and art in the journal Internationale Situationniste.