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Situationist International 
For this purpose they suggested and experimented with the construction of 
situations, namely the setting up of environments favorable for the fulfillment 
of such desires. Using methods drawn from the arts, they developed a series 
of experimental fields of study for the construction of such situations, 
like unitary urbanism and psychogeography. They fought against the main 
obstacle on the fulfillment of such superior passional living, identified by 
them in advanced capitalism. Their theoretical work peaked on the highly 
influential book The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord. Debord argued 
in 1967 that spectacular features like mass media and advertising have a 
central role in an advanced capitalist society, which is to show a fake reality 
in order to mask the real capitalist degradation of human life. 
Fluxus — a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow" — is an 
international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending 
different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active 
in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban 
planning, architecture, and design. Fluxus is often described as intermedia, a 
term coined by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins in a famous 1966 essay. Fluxus 
encouraged a "do-it-yourself" aesthetic, and valued simplicity over 
complexity. Like Dada before it, Fluxus included a strong current of anti-
commercialism and an anti-art sensibility, disparaging the conventional 
market-driven art world in favor of an artist-centered creative practice. As 
Fluxus artist Robert Filliou wrote, however, Fluxus differed from Dada in its 
richer set of aspirations, and the positive social and communitarian 
aspirations of Fluxus far outweighed the anti-art tendency that also marked 
the group. 
In the 1960s, the Dada-influenced art group Black Mask declared that 
revolutionary art should be "an integral part of life, as in primitive society, 
and not an appendage to wealth." Black Mask disrupted cultural events in 
New York by giving made up flyers of art events to the homeless with the lure 
of free drinks. After, the Motherfuckers grew out of a combination of Black 
Mask and another group called Angry Arts. Up Against the Wall 
 
 
Motherfuckers (often referred to as simply "the Motherfuckers", or UAW/MF) 
was an anarchist affinity group based in New York City. This "street gang with 
analysis" was famous for its Lower East Side direct action and is said to have 
inspired members of the Weather Underground and the Hippies.