Spectacular Times was great.
I think the thing with the feuds, aside from the obvious attraction of being rude and having a potty mouth, is about having all of these ideas you want to put into praxis and the urge for action, which, when the impotence of their ability to draw the masses to action sets in, becomes aimed inward because they are demanding that their ideas be taken seriously somewhere, and they are nowhere. So instead of accounting for the fact that the masses of people
don't want things to change, instead of incorporating that into their theory that is theoretically supposed to
benefit the masses, that the masses are happy with their car and roads and T.V.'s and jobs and commodities and whatever, they point blame on those who have a different vision than themselves, and take action against them. So they don't feel completely impotent. The Situationists felt that the masses were getting tired of the spectacular-commodity economy, that it's negation was starting to show in wildcats, in youth gangs, in shoplifting, but the economy colonized everyday life further and further without showing any weakness that would last, or even a short lived loss of steam. May '68 left them poised for action that would never come, and they took it out on those around them, though that's not to say that that sectarianism and breaks and bad behaviour didn't precede that.
But I guess more so than that, they're just aping the tone set by Breton what with the exclusions and denunciations, which I guess, again is about not feeling impotent. The will to pussy trumps all.
The Right To Be Greedy by For Ourselves is the pinnacle of US pro-situ activity. I'm pretty sure they had members from Negation, who did the
Power Of Negative Thinking journal, and made up the American section of the SI, probably for a week or two. A copy of
The Right To Be Greedy can be found here:
http://void.nothingness.org/archives/situationist/display/4602/index.phpThere was also Black Mask/Up Against The Wall Motherfucker, who were considered for sectionhood in the SI, but were prematurely excluded when poet and member Dan Georgakis offered up a mystical interpretation of The Revolution Of Everyday Life by Vaneigem, who had just flown to the States to meet with them about their membership. He got on the next plane to Paris and that was the end of that. Heatwave, the short lived British section made a stink about the Motherfuckers affair, were quickly excluded for their support. They became King Mob, who included Jamie Reid among their ranks, as well as Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, who were more kind of hangers on, I believe.
There was an anthology of Black Mask/Motherfuckers works edited by "Jacque Vache" published by Unpopular Books and Sabotage Editions in the 90's. I suspect Jacque Vache may have been Stewart Home assuming the name of the famous proto-Dadaist and suicide, but I never could figure that out for sure.
