FULL AUTOMATION IN ITS INFANCY: THE SITUATIONIST AVANT-GARDE BOOK FIN DE COPENHAGUE

Authors

  • Dominique Routhier

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/nja.v29i60.122841

Keywords:

Postwar, Automation, Situationist International, Asger Jorn, Guy Debord, Value-form theory

Abstract

This article discusses Fin de Copenhague, a Situationist book experiment from 1957 by Asger Jorn and Guy Debord. By way of a contextualizing archival study with special attention to Jorn’s contemporaneous book project Pour la forme, the article demonstrates that the Russian avant-garde book was a key influence if also a point of critical departure. On this reading, Fin de Copenhague marks a turn away from the unbridled technological optimism of the historical avant-garde. In its material implications and aesthetic choices, Fin de Copenhague draws attention to crucial changes in the capitalist mode of production and challenges the then nascent discourse about “full automation.”

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Published

2020-11-22

How to Cite

Routhier, D. (2020). FULL AUTOMATION IN ITS INFANCY: THE SITUATIONIST AVANT-GARDE BOOK FIN DE COPENHAGUE. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 29(60), 48–71. https://doi.org/10.7146/nja.v29i60.122841

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 60 (2020)

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