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Guy Debord

Born

in Paris, France

December 28, 1931

Died

November 30, 1994

Website

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

Genre

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) 4.02 avg rating — 14,652 ratings — published 1967 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comments on the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, Malcolm Imrie (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 940 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Panegyric: Books 1 & 2 by Guy Debord, James Brook (Translator) , John McHale (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Internationale Situationniste by Guy Debord (Editor), Mohamed Dahou (Editor) , Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Cinematic Works: Scripts, Stills, Documents by Guy Debord, Ken Knabb (Translator) 4.30 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sick Planet by Guy Debord, Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translation) 3.91 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Panegyric 3.90 avg rating — 63 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni 4.12 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1985 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Considerations on the Assassination of Gérard Lebovici really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International 6/57-8/60 3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

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“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

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“Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

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