They came up with détournements as a technique to identify the spectacle.

Interviewee: Neala Schleuning

They identified the spectacle, they came up with détournements as a technique to address that. But they also highlighted what other writers had written about in the past: the situation. Situationist International means that this idea of real anti-metaphorical space was important for people to understand and it was both geographically grounded but the situation can also be a dilemma, and can also be a place for tension and contestation for dialectical confrontation. This is a situation and this is how you can take it apart and understand it. So I think those were their key points. There was a lot of strong criticism of the SI and in particular the critics felt that they were too easily co-opted by capitalism. The more that they came up with clever ideas,the more that they were then just being incorporated in new advertisin