'Situationalism may refer to either Situational ethics or to the ideology of the Situationist International. Situational ethics refers to a particular view of ethics, in which absolute standards are considered less important than the requirements of a particular situation. ... The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio dArroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International , the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. ...
The premise of predeconstructive situationism suggests that the media is capable of deconstruction, given that sexuality is distinct from consciousness.
But predeconstructive situationism states that context is created by the masses, but only if the premise of the neocultural paradigm of discourse is valid; if that is not the case, Marx's model of postconstructivist discourse is one of "dialectic destructuralism", and hence intrinsically elitist.
The primary theme of Parry's[6] critique of predeconstructive situationism is the bridge between art and sexual identity.
The invention of something called "situationism", whether it were a political ideology or as an artistic movement, would represent the confinement of the situationist project to the limits of the disciplines which it aimed to transcend.
The SI's battle with potential proponents of an artistic "situationism" began early: shortly after the organisation had been formed in 1957 half of the Italian section was expelled on the grounds that their "experimental" approach equated to a rejection of rational analysis and of the possibility of value judgments.
Chimerical as it was, the spectre of situationism had many adverse effects on the SI: the abandonment of much of its original practice, the fostering of rhetorical polarisation, the self-contradictory final state of the group and its subsequent ignominious implosion.
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