situationist

adj, noun — 2 senses

situationist

adj

Etymology From situation + -ist.

1

Pertaining to situationism.

  • Psychogeography was formed and validated by a situationist group discourse and culture that couldn't be just blanked out at will. In fact Debord presented the situationist maps of Paris and the “theory of the dérive” precisely in order to ratify group activity, codifying all sorts of overblown psychogeographic techniques.1999, Simon Sadler, The Situationist City, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 78:
  • While members of the cell he is meeting no doubt consider themselves revolutionaries, their call to arms is Fast Company, the rapidly growing magazine that began in April of 1995 with a bold series of declarations blending Situationist sloganeering with Madison Avenue exhortations.2000 March 5, Tom Vanderbilt, “The Capitalist Cell”, in The New York Times Magazine:

situationist

noun

Etymology From situation + -ist.

1

A person who subscribes to situationism.

  • In 1976 and 1977, and the years to follow, as symbolically remade by the Sex Pistols, it was, perhaps, dadaists, lettrists, situationists, and various medieval heretics.1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:

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