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
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.
progress plagiarism
Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it
leisure emptiness justified
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
reflection advertisements intermission
The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.
gossip boredom sage
The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.
art organisation direct
Art ... can become the direct organisation of more highly evolved sensations.
civilization youth made
In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.
leisure tourism consumption
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
cutting order tree
No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens....spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.
The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
life reality greatness
people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.
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.
organization people speech
An organization must always remember that its objective is not getting people to listen to speeches by experts, but getting them to speak for themselves.
believe secret littles
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.