Guy Debord * 28.12.1931

The Society of the Spectacle


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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 directly lived has moved away into a representation.


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Debord, Guy 1931-1994
438 works in 1,497 publications in 19 languages and 13,177 library holdings
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85228329/


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> > text von guy debord in engl.
> >
> > In fact, it is necessary to finish with any notion of personal
> > property in this area. The appearance of new necessities outmodes
> > previous "inspired" works. They become obstacles, dangerous habits.
> > The point is not whether we like them or not. We have to go beyond
> > them.
> >
> > Any elements, no matter where they are taken from, can serve in making
> > new combinations. The discoveries of modern poetry regarding the
> > analogical structure of images demonstrate that when two objects are
> > brought together, no matter how far apart their original contexts may
> > be, a relationship is always formed. Restricting oneself to a personal
> > arrangement of words is mere convention. The mutual interference of
> > two worlds of feeling, or the bringing together of two independent
> > expressions, supersedes the original elements and produces a synthetic
> > organization of greater efficacy. Anything can be used.
> >
> > It goes without saying that one is not limited to correcting a work or
> > to integrating diverse fragments of out-of-date works into a new one;
> > one can also alter the meaning of those fragments in any appropriate
> > way, leaving the imbeciles to their slavish preservation of
> > "citations."
> >