Guy deBord
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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.
our-society
In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.
boredom revolutionary
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
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
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
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.
reality people unity
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation . . . The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.