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Raoul Vaneigem

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VANIEGEM, RAUOUL
(1935-)
[[Belgian ]] situationist.His ''Revolution of Everyday [[Life]]'' (1967) is one of the classics of [[situationism]], alongside [[Debord]]'s ''[[Society of the Spectacle]]'' (1967).
Much less philosophically abstract and closer to the [[anarchist]] [[tradition ]] than [[Debord]]. [[Vaneigem]] predicts a [[revolution]] in everyday life that will be brought [[about ]] by a spontaneous explosion of poetic [[creativity ]] and the founding of a small [[self]]-governing communities that will unleash a free [[human ]] creativity.
His [[vision ]] of poetic creativity is strongly influenced by the tradition of [[Dada]]; in [[Vaniegem]]'s view, riots and vandalism are forms of spontaneous [[poetry]].
His vision of [[sexual ]] [[revolution]] is decidedly prefeminist and owes a lot to [[Reich]]'s views of the emancipatory function of the [[orgasm]].
His commends on the manner in which advertisements influence consumers through a [[mechanism ]] of [[interpellation]] are intriguingly similar to [[Althusser]]'s these on [[ideology]].
[[Vaneigem]]'s polemical denunciation of the [[society of the spectacle]] comprises a powerful and often witty description of the kaleidoscopic flow of [[sign]]s which, by using the mechanism of [[interpellation]], transforms [[individual]]s into actors who play out [[alienating]] roles.
The function of the [[ideological]], artistic and [[cultural ]] [[spectacle ]] is to transform the wolves of [[spontaneity ]] into the sphepards of [[knowledge]] and [[beauty]].
Although he broke with what was [[left ]] of the [[Situationist International]] in 1972, [[Vaneigem]] continues to write in a recognizably [[situationist]] style (1995).
==Vaneigem==
A similar [[notion ]] of [[interpellation]] can be found in [[Vaneigem]]'s contribution to the [[theory ]] of [[situationism]] (1967).
Confronted by the flow of [[sign]]s and [[image]]s that cosntitute [[Debord]]'s '[[society of the spectacle]]', [[individual]]s are constantly [[interpellated]] by posters, advertisements and stereotypes offering [[universal ]] [[image]]s in which they are invited to recognize themselves.
The function of [[interpellation]] is to block spontaneous creativity.
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