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Guy Debord (1930-1994)

The Society of the Spectacle

Alienation, situationalism, everyday life, detournement,

Breton, Marx, Lukacs, Hegel, Henri Lefebvre,

Ideas were an influence on May 1968 in Paris.

the concrete life of everyone has been degraded into a speculative universe”. (SOTS)

 

Leader of Situationist International

 

 

Panegyric was the first of two intended volumes on Debord’s life, which he ended with suicide in. It shows a remarkable character deeply impressed by military strategy.

 

SOTS

 

Critique of Leninism and Bolshevikism 98,99,100

 

 

 

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Resources

Critique of Seperation

Review of Panegyric and Plant

Bibliography

Guy Debord, Panegyric, translated by James Brook (Verso)

Guy Debord, The Situationists and the New Forms of Action in Politics and Art (trans: Ken Knab) e-text

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle- Zone Books 1995

Sadie Plant, The most radical gesture: the Situationist International in a postmodern age (Routledge)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord

 

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