The Second Situationist International were a small group of situationists (the "Nashists") who broke away from the Situationist International (SI). Jørgen Nash identifies the first manifestation of the group as a leaflet signed by himself along with Jacqueline de Jong and Ansgar Elde , shortly after the group Seven Rebels was formed at Situationist Bauhaus at Asger Jorn 's farm Drakabygget in southern Sweden .
8-472: Before the rupture with the SI, Jorn, who sided with the SI against Nash, emphasised situlogy , "the transformative morphology of the unique." Howard Slater describes the break between the "Parisian" and the "Scandinavian" tendencies as amounting to "a conflict between a conceptual and an expressionist approach, or, to echo Jorn's two tendencies of situlogy, a conflict between the ludic and the analytical," and quotes
16-551: A two-dimensional plane in which select three-dimensional properties not possible with conventional orthography can be utilized (for instance, overlapping elements or perspective lines to indicate depth). With these additional dimensions available, the deictic relationships between signifiers becomes a new channel for conveying information. This innovation in the visual mode is inherently idiosyncratic, symbols and meanings varying from person to person with no standard source of truth. While this quality of hypergraphy ostensibly furthers
24-405: Is by separating sound from meaning, abandoning the constraints imposed by the encoding of phonetic values. The resulting visual form, no longer tasked with conveying this phonetic information, is free to expand on the aesthetic plane. Rather than using words to signify ideas, the ideas can be more directly signified by pictographs or symbols from other sign systems. Traditional syntax is replaced by
32-418: Is rooted in the core Lettrist concept that every major arena of human interaction, whether it be literary or economic , follows the same basic pattern. A paradigm is introduced into a system and iterated upon until all possibilities are exhausted (this is deemed the amplic phase ), at which point the only path forward is to deconstruct the system down to its most granular elements (the chiseling phase ). Once
40-600: The Drakabygget Declaration : The Franco-Belgian Situationists base themselves on the same principles as Pascal , Descartes ... action precedes emotion. Emotion is a primary non-reflective intelligence: passionate thought/thinking passion. ... We do not always distinguish between theory and practice. We intend to produce our theories after the event. ... The French work exactly the other way round. They want everything straight before they start and everybody has to line up correctly. The Drakabygget Declaration
48-649: The Second Situationist International. Situlogy Hypergraphy , also called hypergraphics or metagraphics , is an experimental form of visual communication developed by the Lettrist movement. Hypergraphy abandons the phonetic values communicated by most conventional written languages in favor of an aesthetically broadened form. Given its experimental nature it can include any visual media. However, hypergraphy most commonly consists of letters, symbols, and pictographs. Hypergraphy
56-461: The system has been fully deconstructed, the pieces are set into a new paradigm and the cycle begins again. According to Lettrist painter Maurice Lemaître , James Joyce's Ulysses marks the apex of the novel and thus the completion of its amplic phase. Alongside Lettrist founder Isidore Isou , Lemaître set to work on creating hypergraphic novels to begin the process of deconstruction. The chief means through which hypergraphy deconstructs language
64-597: Was the founding document of the Second Situationist International, which appeared in the Situationist Times No. 2, 1962. The declaration was signed by Jørgen Nash , Jens Jørgen Thorsen , Gordon Fazakerley , Hardy Strid , Stefan Larsson, Ansgar Elde , Jacqueline de Jong , and Patrick O'Brien , following their expulsion from the Situationist International. The contributors to Situationist Antinational were all associated with
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