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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

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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.

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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, mak...more

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

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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was ...more

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Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.

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

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Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l'empire de la passivité moderne. Il recouvre toute la surface du monde et baigne indéfiniment dans sa pr...more

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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-même.

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There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable ...more

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

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

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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 t...more

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The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or...more