It refers to "how ritualized action might be avoided or at least confronted consciously as contrary to the subject's freedom of nihilation".
[2]Earlier, in his 1939 novella The Childhood of a Leader collected in The Wall, Sartre expressed the concept while referring to pranks, saying that they "have a revolutionary value.
"[3][4] Another famous use of the term was in 1945, in his editorial of the first issue of Les Temps modernes (Modern Times); arguing the principle of the responsibility of the intellectual towards his own times and the principle of an engaged literature, he summarized that "the writer is in a situation with his epoch."
Sartre's concept of Situation was reprised by Guy Debord at least since the times of the Letterist International.
[11] The relationship between Sartre's philosophy of the situation and the Situationist International is clarified by Peter Wollen in his essay "Bitter Victory".