Episode 473: Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973)

Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (AKA La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques?) is the 1973 film from
René Viénet which is a re-dubbing of the 1972 film Crush. The film re-tells re-tells the story of Crush as a tale of a bunch of rotten bureaucrats who have oppressed the working class long enough. The workers look forward to a day when the landlords will all hang, priests will be cut in two and the churches will be burned to the ground.

Spencer Parsons and Rob St. Mary join Mike to to discuss the Situationist movement, detournement, and its modern implications.

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