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
our-society
In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.
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.
stolen activity
None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle
army police violence
Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.
dream sleep wish
The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.
language familiar
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.