But it can no longer correspond to any of the traditional aesthetic categories. Integral art, which has been talked about so much, can be realized only at the level of urbanism. It must include both the creation of new forms and the détournement of previous forms of architecture, urbanism, poetry and cinema. Unitary urbanism must, for example, determine the acoustic environment as well as the distribution of different varieties of food and drink. Such an interrelated ensemble must be envisaged as incomparably more far-reaching than the old domination of architecture over the traditional arts, or than the present sporadic application to anarchic urbanism of specialized technology or of scientific investigations such as ecology. Unitary urbanism is defined first of all as the use of all arts and techniques as means contributing to the composition of a unified milieu. Our perspectives of action on the environment ultimately lead us to the notion of unitary urbanism. We must develop a systematic intervention based on the complex factors of two components in perpetual interaction: the material environment of life and the behaviors which it gives rise to and which radically transform it. Our central idea is the construction of situations, that is to say, the concrete construction of momentary ambiances of life and their transformation into a superior passional quality. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.«Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency's Conditions of Organisation and Action»
For this new edition the translations have all been fine-tuned and over 100 pages of new material have been added. The SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY, generally recognized as the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English, presents a rich variety of articles, leaflets, graffiti and internal documents, ranging from early experiments in "psychogeography" to lucid analyses of the Watts riot, the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and other crises and upheavals of the sixties. Since then-although the SI itself was dissolved in 1972-situationist theories and tactics have continued to inspire radical currents all over the world. Seeking a more extreme social revolution than was dreamed of by most leftists, they developed an incisive critique of the global spectacle-commodity system and of its "Communist" pseudo-opposition, and their new methods of agitation helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people's passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International.
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