abstract:A détournement is a technique developed in the 1950s by the Letterist International, and later adapted by the Situationist International (SI),Report on the Construction of Situations (1957) that was defined in the SI's inaugural 1958 journal as "[t]he integration of present or past artistic productions into a superior construction of a milieu. In this sense there can be no situationist painting or music, but only a situationist use of those means.