Report on the Construction of Situations

The Situationist International
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Report on the Construction of Situations is the founding Manifesto of the Situationist International revolutionary organization.^[1]^[2] The pamphlet was published by Guy Debord in June 1957,^[3] and the following month the organization was founded in Cosio d'Arroscia, Italy.

The organization was founded by the fusion of three organizations: the Lettrist International, the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association.

The complete title is Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency’s Conditions of Organization and Action.

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^ Bandini (1977) pp.110-1
^ Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio (May 1958) introduction to the Italian edition of the Report on the Construction of Situations. Published in Turin by Notizie (1958).