{"title":"FULL AUTOMATION IN ITS INFANCY: THE SITUATIONIST AVANT-GARDE BOOK FIN DE COPENHAGUE","authors":"Dominique Routhier","doi":"10.7146/NJA.V29I60.122841","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses Fin de Copenhague, a Situationist book experiment from 1957 by Asger Jorn and Guy Debord. By way of a contextualizing archival study with special attention to Jorn’s contemporaneous book project Pour la forme, the article demonstrates that the Russian avant-garde book was a key influence if also a point of critical departure. On this reading, Fin de Copenhague marks a turn away from the unbridled technological optimism of the historical avant-garde. In its material implications and aesthetic choices, Fin de Copenhague draws attention to crucial changes in the capitalist mode of production and challenges the then nascent discourse about “full automation.”","PeriodicalId":38858,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Aesthetics","volume":"29 1","pages":"48-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nordic Journal of Aesthetics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7146/NJA.V29I60.122841","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article discusses Fin de Copenhague, a Situationist book experiment from 1957 by Asger Jorn and Guy Debord. By way of a contextualizing archival study with special attention to Jorn’s contemporaneous book project Pour la forme, the article demonstrates that the Russian avant-garde book was a key influence if also a point of critical departure. On this reading, Fin de Copenhague marks a turn away from the unbridled technological optimism of the historical avant-garde. In its material implications and aesthetic choices, Fin de Copenhague draws attention to crucial changes in the capitalist mode of production and challenges the then nascent discourse about “full automation.”
本文讨论了阿斯格·约恩和盖伊·德波1957年出版的情景主义著作《哥本哈根的结局》。通过对档案的语境化研究,特别关注Jorn的当代书籍项目Pour la forme,本文证明了俄罗斯前卫书籍是一个关键的影响,同时也是一个关键的出发点。在这种解读下,《哥本哈根之角》标志着对历史先锋派肆无忌惮的技术乐观主义的背离。在它的物质含义和美学选择中,《哥本哈根之光》引起了人们对资本主义生产方式的关键变化的关注,并挑战了当时新生的关于“完全自动化”的话语。