Mehdi El Hajoui Editor

Mustapha Khayati was a member of the Situationist International in the 1960s.Though collaborating with other Situationists, he was the chief author of On the Poverty of Student LIfe.

Guy Debord was a French Marxists theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, and founding member of the Situationist International. He is the author of The Society of the Spectacle.

The Situationist International was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972.

Donald Nicholson-Smith was a member of the SI and has translated a number of their texts (and much more) into English.

Anna O’Meara’s research investigates Middle Eastern art and activism between the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, particularly the work of Mustapha Khayati. Her translations have been published by Verso, Three Rooms Press, Annex Press, and BauerVerlag.

Mehdi El Hajoui, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, has been researching and collecting the Situationist International for over a decade. Items from his archive have been exhibited at Princeton University, Indiana University, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain of Geneva, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, among others. He frequently writes and lectures, and as a board member of Booklyn and ProArts Commons supports marginalized artists working at the intersection of art and social change.