Guy Debord

French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931-1994)

Guy-Ernest Debordwas a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International. He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.

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About the Guy Debord

Guy-Ernest Debordwas a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International. He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.

Debord is best known for his 1967 essay The Society of the Spectacle.

7 Quotes by Guy Debord

  1. 1.

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

    Guy Debord

    French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931-1994)

  2. 2.

    Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

    Guy Debord

    French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931-1994)

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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

    French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931-1994)

  4. 4.

    Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

    Guy Debord

    French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931-1994)

  5. 5.

    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 of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

    Guy Debord

    French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931-1994)

  6. 6.

    In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

    Guy Debord

    French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931-1994)

  7. 7.

    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

    French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931-1994)