NOT BORED! writes:
"Orientation Debate
of the Situationist International"
In April 1968, the members of the Situationist International (SI) began to prepare for an internal ("private") debate on their organization, that is to say, on the way in which the SI was organized. But, as Guy Debord said later, the occupations movement of May 1968, "which was obviously more pleasant and instructive than this debate, forced us to postpone it." The debate resumed in the Fall of 1968, but became truly serious in the wake of the September 1969 meeting of the SI, which was widely perceived in the organization to be less than satisfactory. The "organization debate" was accompanied by a slew of exclusions -- Alain Chevalier (French section, October 1969), Robert Chasse (American, January 1970), Bruce Elwell (American, January 1970), Claudio Pavan (Italian, Spring 1970), Eduardo Rothe (Italian, Spring 1970), Paolo Salvadori (Italian, Summer 1970) and Rene Riesel (French, September 1971) -- and resignations -- Francois de Beaulieu (French section, 1970), Patrick Cheval (French, 1970), Raoul Vaneigem (French, November 1970), Jon Horelick (American, December 1970), Christian Sebastiani (French, December 1970), Tony Verlaan (American, December 1970), and Rene Vienet (French, February 1971). The debate/carnage continued until April 1972, when the remaining members of the SI -- Guy Debord, Gianfranco Sanguinetti and J.V. Martin -- announced their decision to disband and tried to explain what had happened to the SI to their readers.
