Harry Matthews: The Solitary Twin

The Situationists were best known for their practice of deviation, which meant putting objects or activities to uses for which they hadn't been intended - my favourite example was an American porn film in which all the lines of dialogue had been replaced with maxims form the Little Red Book of chairman Mao. The main target of the movement wasn't late capitalism or neo-fascism, it was hierarchy of any kind. All previous revolutions had overthrown one hierarchy only to replace it with another just as bad and often worse. It wasn't enough to get rid of capitalist hierarchies, all social and political hierarchies had to be axed as well.... The only way to make sure this happened was for revolutionary action to become permanent.