Members
Dr Alastair Hemmens (Director)
Senior Lecturer in French, Cardiff University
Research Interests: Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem, the Situationist International, critical theory, France, intellectual history, art history, psychoanalysis and the critique of work.
Contact: hemmensa@cardiff.ac.uk
Selected Publications: The Critique of Work in Modern French Thought: From Charles Fourier to Guy Debord (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); ed. with G. Zacarias, The Situationist International: A Critical Handbook (London: Pluto, Press 2020).
Contact for Peer Review: Yes.
Contact for Doctoral Supervision: Yes.
Languages: French and English.
Prof Gabriel Zacarias (Deputy Director)
Professor of Art History, University of Campinas
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Universität Hamburg
Research Interests: Guy Debord, The Situationist International, Gruppe Spur, Asger Jorn, Surrealism, Lettrism, Postwar Avant-Garde, Critical Theory, Marxism, Intellectual History, May ‘68.
Contact: gabrielz@unicamp.br
Selected Publications: ed. with A. Hemmens, The Situationist International: A Critical Handbook (London: PlutoPress, 2020); "La Féconde Forêt", postface to: Guy Debord, Poésie, etc. (Paris: L'échappée, 2019); Crítica do espetáculo: o pensamento radical de Guy Debord. (São Paulo: Elefante, 2022)
Contact for Peer Review: Yes
Contact for Doctoral Supervision: Yes
Contact for Translation: Yes
Languages: Portuguese, English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.
Dr Tom Bunyard
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool
Research Interests: Guy Debord, Hegel, Marx, Existentialism, Situationist International, aesthetics, cultural and critical theory, continental philosophy, intellectual history, modernity and the Enlightenment
Selected Publications: Debord, Time and Spectacle: Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory, 2018, Chicago: Haymarket; 'Spectacle and Strategy: On the Development of Debord's Theoretical Work from The Society of the Spectacle to Comments on the Society of the Spectacle', in Selva, 1.4, 2022; ‘Histoire et Révolution dans La Société du Spectacle de Guy Debord’, in Revue Française d’Histoire des Idées Politiques, 55, 2022
Contact: t.bunyard@liverpool.ac.uk
Contact for Peer Review: Yes
Contact for Doctoral Supervision: Yes
Languages: English and French
Dr François Coadou
Professor of Philosophy of Art, École nationale supérieure d'art et de design de Limoges / Laboratoire EHIC, Université de Limoges
Research Interests: Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem, the Situationist International, Surrealism (especially Surrealism in Belgium), Lettrism, “post-situs”, Henri Lefebvre, art history and critical theory.
Contact: francois.coadou@ensad-limoges.fr
Selected Publications: Guy Debord, Lettres à Marcel Mariën (ed., introduction and notes, Toulon: La Nerthe, 2015); Fragments pour Isidore Isou (ed., Paris: Art book Magazine, 2017); Situation explosive ! Une aventure des Directives de Guy Debord (Paris: Archivio, 2024)
Contact for Peer Review: Yes.
Contact for Doctoral Supervision: Yes.
Languages: French and English.
Bertrand Cochard
Professor of Aesthetic Philosophy, Villa Thiole (Nice, France)
Member of the CRHI (Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Idées), Université Côte d'Azur
Research Interests: Guy Debord, the Situationist International, Critical theory, Technocriticism, Philosophy of Free Time
Contact: bertrand.cd@gmail.com
Selected Publications: Guy Debord et la philosophie (Hermann, 2021); "Le temps de vivre ne manquera plus. Guy Debord, la politique et le temps" (Revue Française d'Histoire des Idées Politiques, 2022); "Internationalism" (in Hemmens and Zacarias, The Situationist International: A Critical Handbook, 2020)
Contact for Peer Review: Yes.
Languages: French and English.
Dr Sophie Dolto
French Instructor, Smith College (International Studies Program in Geneva)
Research Interests: Jean-Patrick Manchette, 1970-1990 ultra-left, the Situationist International, avant-gardes, bank robber autobiographies and the critique of work, critique of nationalism.
Contact: sophiedolto@gmail.com
Selected Publications: Dolto and Gabay, “Assessing collaborative writing. A stylometric study of Manchette’s and Bastid’s co-written novel” (DH Benelux 2024); Dolto, “'Il faudrait cesser d’écrire des romans': The Paradoxical Influence of the Situationist International on Jean-Patrick Manchette” (New Readings, 2023); Dolto and Sidi Moussa, “The Situationists’ Anticolonialism: An Internationalist Perspective”, (in Hemmens, Alastair and Gabriel Zacarias, The Situationist International: A Critical Handbook, 2020).
Contact for Peer Review: Yes
Contact for Doctoral Supervision: Yes
Languages: French and English
Prof Fabrice Flahutez
Full Professor of Art History, University Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne and Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France)
Research Interests: Guy Debord, the Situationist International, critical theory, France, intellectual history, art history, Surrealism, Lettrism, art brut.
Contact: fabrice.flahutez@univ-st-etienne.fr
Selected Publications: Fabrice Flahutez, Fabien Danesi, Emmanuel Guy, La fabrique du cinéma de Guy Debord (Paris: Actes-Sud, 2013); Fabrice Flahutez, Le lettrisme historique était une avant-garde 1945-1953 (Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2011); Fabrice Flahutez (dir), Julia Drost (dir), Frédéric Alix (dir), Le lettrisme et son temps, essai de contextualisation (Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2018).
Contact for Peer Review : Yes.
Contact for Doctoral Supervision: Yes
Languages: French and English.
Amy Grandvoinet
Phd Researcher in Literary Psychogeographies (AHRC), Aberystwith and Cardiff Universities
Research Interests: Michèle Bernstein, Ralph Rumney, Alexander Trocchi, so-called 'literary psychogeographies', the Lettrist & Situationist Internationals, critical theory, Surrealism, affect, psychoanalysis, the politics of mental health, New Towns
Contact: amy.grandvoinet@gmail.com or akg4@aber.ac.uk
Select Publications: “Campus Dérives” (Aberystwyth: think.material Press, 2024); co-au. Neal Alexander, “French connections: Zoë Skoulding’s European cities” in International Journal of Welsh Writing in English (forthcoming).
Contact for Peer Review: Yes.
Languages: English, small French, small Welsh.
Website: linktr.ee/amy_k_grandvoinet and amygrandvoi.net.
Patrick Marcolini
Professor of Philosophy of Art, Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry (France)
Research Interests: Guy Debord, the Situationist International, post-situationism, critical theory, intellectual history, art history, avant-gardes, art and politics, marxism and postmarxism, anarchism, political ecology, technocritics, degrowth
Contact: patrick.marcolini@univ-montp3.fr
Selected Publications: - Guy Debord et la technologie. Revue Française d'Histoire des Idées Politiques, 2022, 2022/1 (55), pp.119-147. ⟨10.3917/rfhip1.055.0119⟩ ; Jeter l’ancre. Situationnistes et anti-industriels face à la destruction de la nature. ELFe XX-XXI - Etudes de littérature française des XXe et XXIe siècles, 2022, 11 ⟨10.4000/elfe.4670⟩; La « commune » du Comité invisible, une métaphore de métaphores. COnTEXTES. Revue de sociologie de la littérature, 2021, 30 ⟨10.4000/contextes.9966⟩.
Contact for Peer Review: Yes
Contact for Doctoral Supervision: Yes
Contact for Translation: Yes
Languages: French, Spanish, English and Italian
Eric-John Russell
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy, Universität Potsdam
Research Interests: German Idealism, Critical Theory, Hegelian Marxism, Wertkritik, Aesthetics, Art History, Media Theory
Contact: eric-john.russell.1@uni-potsdam.de
Selected Publications: Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything is as it Seems (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021); A Gallery of Recuperation: On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds (London: MIT Press, 2023); "You Can't Spell Opinion without I: Toward a Hegelian Critical Theory of Opinion," in: Hegel Bulletin (Feb. 2024).
Contact for Peer Review: Yes.
Contact for Doctoral Supervision: Yes.
Contact for Translation: Yes.
Languages: English, German and French.
Cristiano José Steinmetz
PhD student in Art History at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) and the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Research interests: Art History, Situationist International, Surrealism, Guy Debord, André Breton, Critical Theory and the Critique of Value (Wertkritik).
Contact: c236375@dac.unicamp.br
Selected publications: Em defesa de uma educação aventureira e desviante: contribuições da Internacional Situacionista (IS) ao processo de formação humana (Conhecimento Interativo, v. 13, p. 107-119, 2019); Intersecção entre ciência e arte: uma leitura do conceito de imanência da teoria estética de György Lukács à luz da nova crítica do valor-dissociação (Entrevero: Revista de Letras, Educação e Humanidades, v. 2, p. 59-87, 2022); Invisible Surrealists and the Black Atlantic: a parallel between the journal Légitime Défense (1932) and the art exhibition Dos Brasis: Arte e Pensamento Negro (2023) (International Journal of Surrealism (IJS 2.2), Minnesota Press, 2024).
Contact for Peer Review: Yes.
Contact for Translation: Yes.
Languages: Portuguese, English and French.
Vanessa Theodoropoulou
PhD History of Art
Professor of Art History and Theory, ESAD Talm - Angers
HiCSA Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Research Interests: Critical artistic practices, avant-garde theory, art politics, affect theories, feminism, the Situationist International, Guy Debord, Asger Jorn
Contact: vanessa.theodoropoulou@talm.fr
Selected Publications: Le Monde en situation. La révolte sensible de l'Internationale situationniste (Dijon: les presses du réel, 2024); ed. with Sandra Delacourt, Katia Schneller, Le Chercheur et ses doubles (Paris: B42, 2016), ed. with Katia Schneller, Au nom de l'art. Enquête sur le statut ambigu des appellations artistiques de 1945 à nos jours (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2014)
Contact for Peer Review: Yes
Languages: French, Greek, English, Italian, Spanish
Anna Trespeuch-Berthelot
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History, Caen Normandie University, France.
Research Interests: Cultural and Environmental History, Situationist International, Political Ecology, Critical Theory, Environmental Mobilizations
Contact: anna.trespeuch-berthelot@unicaen.fr
Selected Publications:"The Shadow Cast by the Situationist International on May '68 ", in A. Hemmens et G. Zacarias (eds.), The Situationist International: A Critical Handook (London: Pluto Press, 2020), pp. 94-102; Guy Debord ou l’ivresse mélancolique (Paris: éd. du Manuscrit, 2017); Anna Trespeuch-Berthelot, L’Internationale Situationniste. De l’histoire au mythe (1948-2013) (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2015).
Contact for Doctoral Supervision: Yes
Languages: French and English