Guy deBord
Guy deBord
French Marxist theorist and philosopher who was most remembered for being one of the principal members of the Letterist International.
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 December 1931
fun garbage-disposal people
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
powerful class claims
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
our-society
In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.
boredom revolutionary
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
focus culture existence
... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.
children reading age
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.
motivation real simple
Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
representation mere
All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
children adventure unfinished
Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.
stolen activity
None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle
desire acting gestures
The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.
reflection advertisements intermission
The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.
leisure emptiness justified
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
progress plagiarism
Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it