Situationist

The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio d'Arroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. This fusion traced further influences from COBRA, Dada, Surrealism, and Fluxus, as well as inspirations from the Workers Councils of the Hungarian Uprising.

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Cosio d'Arroscia - 28 July - 1957 - The Lettrist International - International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus - London Psychogeographical Association - COBRA - Dada - Surrealism - Fluxus - Workers Councils - Hungarian Uprising

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The journal Internationale Situationniste defined situationist as "having to do with the theory or practical activity of constructing situations." The same journal defined situationism as "a meaningless term improperly derived from the above. There is no such thing as situationism, which would mean a doctrine of interpretation of existing facts. The notion of situationism is obviously devised by antisituationists."

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One should not confuse the term "situationist" as used in this article with practitioners of situational ethics or of situated ethics. Nor should it be confused with a strand of psychologists who consider themselves "situationist" as opposed to "dispositionists", meaning they believe people's actions are conditioned by the situation they find themselves in rather than some internal moral character. (See also: fundamental attribution error)

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Situational ethics - Situated ethics - Psychologists - Fundamental attribution error

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