Raoul Vaneigem
Raoul Vaneigem
Raoul Vaneigemis a Belgian writer. He was born in Lessines. After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brusselsfrom 1952 to 1956, he participated in the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970. He currently resides in Belgium and is the father of four children...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryBelgium
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few knowledge minds quotes since taken
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
book discover ideally order quotes reader
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
drinking order making-love
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.
profound survival way
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
eruption losing realizing
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
beauty dream humanity
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
world-upside-down transformation commodity
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
delight preparing festivities
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection
tired mean imagination
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are.
submission leashes
Hope is the leash of submission.
complete cycle survive work
Work to survive; survive by consuming; survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete