SI — enfants perdus : situationist chrestomathy

This obscure conspiracy of limitless demands.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

The more famous our theses become, the more shadowy our own presence will be.
Gianfranco Sanguinetti and Guy Debord, La véritable scission dans l'Internationale

People must take us or leave us as a whole. There can be no picking and choosing.
Internationale situationniste

Sooner or later the SI must define itself as therapeutic.
Internationale situationniste #8

The SI cannot be a massive organization, and it will not even accept disciples as do the conventional avant-garde groups. At this point in history, when the task is posed, in the most unfavorable conditions, of reinventing culture and the revolutionary movement on an entirely new basis, the SI can only be a Conspiracy of Equals, a general staff that does not want troops.
Internationale situationniste #8

The SI does not want mere disciples.
Internationale situationniste #8

We are artists only insofar as we are no longer artists: we come to fulfill art.
Internationale situationniste #9

The SI should act like an axis which, receiving its movement from the revolutionary impulses of the entire world, precipitates in a unitary manner the radical turn of events.
Internationale situationniste #11

What’s happened now is that our work has entered the public domain and so we can’t really stop museums taking an interest in it. It’s there, it’s history, it’s recuperation, it’s whatever you like.
Ralph Rumney

The duration of the SI’s survival no doubt was too long. It petrified its myth, its lie.
Raoul Vaneigem, Self-Portraits and Caricatures of the Situationist International