This essay examines how key Situationist concepts—the spectacle and détournement —are gendered. The first half of the essay presents these concepts along with a discussion of Asger Jorn's and Isidore Isou's gendered theories of creation and a reading of the figure of Jack the Ripper in Guy Debord and Jorn's book Mémoires . The second half of the essay argues that one of Debord's sources, Baudelaire's prose poem "Solitude," presents a concept—"insinuation"—that offers a model for rethinking détournement as something other than the masculinized overcoming of spectacular passivity.
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