( so it's about that one moment )
This moment of the absence of any
foreign determination and dependence.
Creating a self-determined, constructed
situation - that was the vision of the
situationists in the 1960s.
Like Hegel, the situationists returned
to the place before the action, because
only here lay the multiplicity of
possibilities for the next steps of
doing. This place, this moment before an
action thus had to be activated and put
into operation and thus also brought
under one's own control. Through
conscious planning, the situationists
wanted to intervene in this one moment,
to make it conscious, with the idea of
being able to interrupt the ingrained
routines and courses of action. By
disrupting everyday life, the
Situationists hoped, the political
individual could make a start in his or
her action, and this "situation" would
then give rise to a "NEW REALITY".
A situation always has the potency
of possibilities.
But nothing is
forever. Move along. Get lost.
The future, this is a project that transforms every historical and ideational site into a SUBJECT to ensure dialogue with the present. On the one hand, this subjectification demands an engagement with current ruptures; on the other hand, it conserves the future in one particular of many possibilities.
Make a perfect circle!