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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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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)
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The Society of the
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