| 释义 |
situationist, a. and n.|sɪtjuːˈeɪʃənɪst|
[f. situation + -ist; in sense A. 1 ad. Fr. situationniste.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to certain revolutionary views about the situation of man in modern culture (see quot. 1971, sense B. 1 below); Situationist International, a movement started in Paris in the 1950s to promote these views.
1958Archit. Rev. CXXIV. 1/2 Snap judgments on the publications of the Situationist International had best be restrained until the documents have been frisked for hidden persuaders. 1963Listener 31 Jan. 202/2 What she has to say about the uses of diversity seems to derive as uniquely from this particular urban scene as does the Situationist vision from the psychogeography of Paris. 1975Observer (Colour Suppl.) 13 July 26/1 The sergeant discovered that the word ‘spectacles’ was a concept, an emblem, almost, of a group subscribing to the views of the so-called Situationist International. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Apr. 387 The walls and statues of the Sorbonne were plastered with posters of Marx, Lenin, Che and Mao, with situationist slogans and Red Flags.
2. Dependent on or determined by circumstances; situationalist.
1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 328 Women's revolution is necessarily situationist. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 19 May 580/4 His own view involves contextual considerations without being situationist. The relevant context is that of a particular social system.
B. n.
1. An adherent of the Situationist International or of situationism.
1963Listener 31 Jan. 201/1 The Situationists are best-known as one of the most subversive anti-art groups of the post-war epoch. 1964Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 781/5 True situationists are much more strongly opposed to all the prevailing mechanisms of culture and information. 1971R. Gombin in Apter & Joll Anarchism Today 19 For the situationists, the bureaucratic system of industrial society has considerably increased the sum total of the exploitation and repression of man... The tremendous development of science and technology has led to the individual being completely taken over by the system; the individual is no more than a commodity..manipulated by the specialists in cultural repression: artists, psychiatrists,..sociologists and ‘experts’ of all kinds. To fight against a ‘spectacular’ society, in which everything is treated as a commodity and in which creative energy spends itself in the fabrication of pseudo-needs, one must attack on all fronts simultaneously. 1977It May 5/1 Debord was (is?) a Situationist—a member of perhaps the most radical group to emerge in France in the years approaching the 1968 eruption: they were radical in the sense that they explored most deeply the critique of modern industrial society, which formed the ideological basis for the French upheaval.
2. An upholder of situation ethics.
1966J. Fletcher Situation Ethics i. 26 The situationist follows a moral law or violates it according to love's need. |