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
choices different mask
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
stolen activity
None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle
people social relation
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
children adventure unfinished
Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.
children reading age
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.
focus culture existence
... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.
art past organization
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
boredom revolutionary
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
world moments truth-is
In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.
representation mere
All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
motivation real simple
Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
order organization people
Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.
our-society
In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.
language familiar
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.