Despite the alienation of everyday life, the possibilities for passion and games are quite real, and it seems to me that the SI would commit a clumsy misreading by letting it be understood that life is totally reified outside of situationist activity (which would be a mystical rescue by the concept—witness the people who approach us and have this impression). On the contrary, it seems to me that this open field [champ libre] is more often than not outside of our collective activity, which implies a certain fatigue. This appears even more obvious to me when we consider the personal theoretical work that participation in the situationist project can lead some people to undertake.
Gianfranco Sanguinetti and Guy Debord, La véritable scission dans l'Internationale