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VISION: Here at Détournement Disk, we are committed to moving humanity on to its next focus of existence.
MISSION: DD is the musical homeland of Erik Talkin and co-conspirators.
Our corporate logo is there to reassure you that we mean business and so you won't get ripped off in your musical purchases. At the same time, the slightly unreassuring feel of the logo should make you feel you are not interfacing with slaves to uncaring business. We hope you are both soothed and intrigued.
Erik Talkin
Beneath the hat is an enigma wrapped in a riddle. Yet, in a world of AI clones, Mr. Talkin is unfailingly the messy human at the center of the musical machinery.
Music from the détournement disk
BURNING
The first release from Détournement Disk is here, a soundtrack album to the graphic novel cycle Burning. (Available now on Bandcamp and Vinyl)
PRIVATE SCHOOL PUNK
The second release from Détournement Disk has also just spat and pogoed its way into life. It's the soundtrack album to the YA novel Private School Punk. (Currently available digitally on Bandcamp and in the new year on luverly puke green vinyl.)
INDIVISIBLE
The third release from Détournement Disk in 2026 will be a soundtrack to the multimedia novel Indivisible. Soundtrack available in 2026. (Available on all manner of real and digital formats and experiences)
DéTOURNEMENT DISK - International Headquarters
In today's Virtual World, it's important to have an imposing headquarters building to promote a sense of stability in the Actual World.
where does DéTOURNEMENT come from?
SAY WHAT?
A term coined by Guy Debord and the Situationist International (SI) movement of the 1960's, Detournement is usually translated into English as ‘diversion’ and was the method of artistic creation used by the situationists.
SUBVERSION
It was, in effect, plagiarism where both the source and the meaning of the original work was subverted to create a new work. In the SI’s own words "there is no Situationist art, only Situationist uses of art."
THIS AIN'T NO RIP OFF
Detournement is distinct from ‘theft’ plagiarism, which only subverts the source of the material and post-modern ‘ironic quotation’ plagiarism which only subverts the meaning of the material, the source becoming the meaning.
THOSE FRENCH!
The SI used detournement in films, art, graphics for their journal and in posters that detourned comics during the events of the Paris uprising of May ’68.
THOSE PUNKS!
Many Situationist ideas became 'popularised' further through the British Punk Rock explosion of the 1970's.
UNRESOLVED
As a movement it cast a lengthy shadow over subsequent developments in music, inspiring furious unresolved debates among hapless commentators over its real legacy.