Guy Debord

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born

December 28, 1931 in Paris, France

died

November 30, 1994

gender

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http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord.html

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Philosophy, Politics, Social Sciences

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Guy Ernest Debord was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International. In broad terms, Debord's theories attempted to account for the spiritually debilitating modernization of the private and public spheres of everyday life by economic forces during the post-WWII modernization of Europe. Alienation, Debord postulated, could be accounted for by the invasive forces of the 'spectacle' - "a social relation between people that is mediated by images." Central to this school of thought was the claim that alienation is more than an emotive description or an aspect of individual psychology; rather, it is a consequence of the mercantile form of social...more

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	The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 2,307 ratings — published 1967 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Comments on the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, Malcolm Imrie (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Panegyric: Books 1 & 2 by Guy Debord, James Brook (Translator), John McHale (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Beneath the Paving Stones: Situationists and the Beach, May 1968 by Guy Debord, Dark Star Collective (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Complete Cinematic Works: Scripts, Stills, Documents by Guy Debord, Ken Knabb (Translator) 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Panegyric 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Internationale Situationniste 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Sick Planet by Guy Debord, Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translation) 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Considerations on the Assassination of Gerard Lebovici 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Society of the Spectacle Film Scripts by Guy Debord, Louis Adamic 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1992	My rating:

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“Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.”
― Guy Debord

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“Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ”
― Guy Debord

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“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”
― Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

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