The Most Successful Situationist
Malcolm McLaren, the spectacle, and why ideas must escape the academy In June, I found myself standing outside Malcolm McLaren’s old house in Stoke Newington. McLaren had been dead for sixteen years, but the mischief seemed very much alive. Looking at the house, I found myself thinking that he may have been the most successful Situationist who ever lived. This is partly because almost everyone has heard of Malcolm McLaren and almost nobody has heard of the Situationists. ...