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Il est ce qui échappe à l'activité des hommes, à la reconsidération et à la correction de leur œuvre...

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Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son d...

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Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immens...

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The word psychogeography, suggested by an illiterate Kabyle as a general term for the phenomena a fe...

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This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.

The Society of the Spectacle

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progre...

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Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everyw...

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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure ...

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Partout où il y a représentation indépendante, le spectacle se reconstitue.

The Society of the Spectacle

Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

The Society of the Spectacle

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with...

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The Society of the Spectacle

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it g...

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Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity

The Society of the Spectacle

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

The Society of the Spectacle

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and hi...

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The Society of the Spectacle

Dont tout «avoir» effectif doit tirer son prestige immédiat et sa fonction dernière.

Of the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far the thing I have ...

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On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the ce...

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Le but n'est rien, le développement est tout. Le spectacle ne veut en venir à rien d'autre qu'à lui-...

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Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l'empire de la passivité moderne. Il recouvre toute la ...

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He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with...

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Guy Debord

Writer

Born: 1931-12-28

Died: 1994-11-30

Guy-Ernest Debord (December 28, 1931 – November 30, 1994) was a French strategist and founding member of the groups Letterist International and Situationist International (SI). He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.More