Situationist Times Explained

The Situationist Times ran to six issues edited and published by Jacqueline de Jong between May 1962 and December 1967 in Hengelo (Netherlands), Copenhagen and Paris, in editions of between 1,000 and 2,000.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Contributors include: Theo Wolvecamp, de Jong, Armando, Vanderkamm, Gruppe SPUR, de Boer, Edle Hansen, Singer, Gordon Fazarkely, Max Bucaille, G. Hay, Asger Jorn, P. Schat, Noël Arnaud, Pierre Alechinsky, Boris Vian, and many others.

No. 3

This issue is the "International British Edition", dedicated to "The Typology of Knots".[5]

No. 4

This issue deals with labyrinths;

No. 5

This issues deals with the Ring, the interlaced ring and consequently the Chain.

a letter from Luc d'Heusch,

Mind and Sense by Asger Jorn

Der Kleine Bootsmann (17th century Danish poem)

Art and Orders by Asger Jorn

Regular forms of closed non-orientabe surfaces by Lech Tomaszewski

Extract from Het Verleden van Oost-Europa by Dr. Z. R. Diettrich

Extract from Topology by Patterson

Cosmogonie annulaires, Port d'Anneau and Structure d'Anneau by Max Bucaille

Von den Polyeder zu den gekrümmten Flächen by Professor W. Lietzmann

Origin et géénéologie d'Anneau by Max Bucaille

Forgotten knowledge of the universe in the children's hopscotch by Virtus Schade

L'infini du doigt by Max Bucaille

L'anneau retrouvé - folk tale from Kashmir

Cercles mysterieux by Max Bucaille

Ringsleken en Ringrijden - Children's game

Noeds et dénouments by D. G. Emmerich

Die Legende des Heiligen Oswald

Cinétisations by Pol Bury

What goes up still goes down by Dr Narlikar and Professor Fred Hoyle

Kreisen, Kreissegementen und Wellenlinien usw. by F. van der Waals

Die Parabel des 3 Ringe (Nathan der Weise) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Some mathematical aspects by H. C. Doets

Tournures by D. G. Emmerich

Venus de l'île by Mérimée

Extract from the Opera The Labyrinth by Peter Schat

Drawings b Karl Pelgram

Poems and drawings by Jim Ryan

No happy returns for me by E. Mazman

No. 6

(International Parisian Edition) contains 33 lithographs (Alechinsky, Peter Klasen, Jorn, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Roland Topor, Antonio Saura.)

Further reading

Book: De Jong, Jacqueline . 2003 . Undercover In the Arts . Ludion.

Situationist Times. https://monoskop.org/Situationist_Times

Notes and References

  1. Book: Wark, McKenzie . 2008 . 50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International . Princeton Architectural Press.
  2. Stewart Home, The Assault on Culture, AK Press, Ch. 7, http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/ass/sitwo.htm
  3. Simon Ford, The Realization and Suppression of the Situationist International, AK Press, 1995, p 119
  4. Andrew Roth, In numbers: serial publications by artists since 1955, PPP Editions, 2009, pp 362-3
  5. Stefan Zweifel, Juri Steiner, Heinz Stahlhut, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni: Die Situationist International (1957-1972), JRP/Ringier, 2006, p 239