Situationist
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 1 Pertaining to situationism. not-comparable
"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."
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From situation + -ist.
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