Guy Debord Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Guy Debord (December 28, 1931-November 30, 1994) was a member of the Lettrist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie and the founder and chief theorist of the Situationist International (SI).
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In broad terms, Debord's theories attempted to account for the the spiritually debiltating modernisation of both the private and public spheres of everday life by the forces of market capitalism during the post-WW2 modernisation of Europe. Feelings of alienation, Debord postulated, could be accounted for by the invasive forces of the 'spectacle' - the seductive nature of consumer capitalism. Debord's analysis applied the critique of commodification by Karl Marx and Georg Lukács to what is superficially called 'the media' and claimed that alienation was more than an emotive description, but an historically determined outcome of capitalism. The SI attempted to create a series of strategies that drew directly on the traditions of Dada and Surrealism.
The SI initially drew membership from the Lettrists - a post-Surrealist group of writers and poets dedicated to the destruction of bourgeois values by reducing the written word to onomatopoeic syllables. However, the SI broke with the formal aims of the Lettrists and, after subsuming much of their membership, were fully established in their own right by 1965 after an intense period of theoretical analysis, publications and expulsions of various members.
The SI are often attributed as being one of the key ideological catalysts for the May 1968 revolution centered around Nantes, in Paris.
The original edition of Debord's earliest books, Memories, was bound with a sandpaper cover so that it would destroy other books placed next to it.
He attempted suicide twice in his life, the first time in 1953. He successfully committed suicide on November 30, 1994.
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Debord was the son of Paulette Rossi and Martial Debord. His best known works are Society of the Spectacle and Comments on the Society of the Spectacle.Films
[Howlings in favor of Sade]
[On the passage of some persons through a rather short period of time]
[Critique of seperation]
[The Society of the Spectacle]
[Refutation of all judgements whether hostile or in praise which up to now where given on the film 'The Society of the Spectacle']
[Wandering around in the night we are consumed by fire]
This film which was meant to be Debord's last one is largely autobiographical but begins with a thorough and pityless critique of the spectator
[Guy Debord - his art and his time]Bibliography
Works by Debord
Further reading
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