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Glasgow and Situationism

Yes, there are both explicit and implicit ways to connect Glaswegian socialists and artistic culture with the Situationist International (SI). Let’s break it down:

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EXPLICIT CONNECTIONS

1. 1970s-80s Leftist and Punk Art Culture in Glasgow

Glasgow’s socialist and punk scenes in the 70s and 80s overlapped with Situationist aesth

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Authorship by Relocation

That’s a really sharp observation, and Frankie Boyle’s example—provocative as always—captures a fascinating concept. While “authorship by relocation” doesn’t appear to be an established academic term in literary theory or media studies, the idea he’s gesturing at does intersect with several known concepts across different di

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Marshall McLuhan chose Marcel Duchamp’s work The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as The Large Glass) as inspiration for the title The Mechanical Bride because he saw in Duchamp’s piece a powerful metaphor for the dehumanization, fragmentation, and mechanization of human experience in the modern, media-saturated world.

Here’s a

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