Lipstick Traces and Kalle Lasn's Contemporary Fluxus Text
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From the basic insights of power in society springs the Situationist's resistance practice of detournement.... Detournement has numerous meanings, from deflection, rerouting, distortion, hijacking, to turning something away from its usual course.... As a tactic, it describes an image, message, or artifact lifted out of its context to create a new meaning, or a turning around and reclamation of lost meaning: a way of putting the stasis of the spectacle in motion....