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Guy Debord (December 28, 1931-November 30, 1994) was a member of the Lettrist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie & a founder and primary litterateur of the Situationist International (SI).

Life and work
Debord was a boy of Paulette Rossi & Martial Debord. His better known works come Society of the Spectacle and [http://www.notbored.org/commentaires.html Comments on the Society of the Spectacle].

Inside wide terms, Debord's theories attempted to account for a spiritually debilitating modernization of each a common soldier & public spheres of everyday life per forces of market capitalist economy when you took the post-WW2 modernisation of Europe. Feelings of alienation, Debord postulated, can be accounted for per invasive forces of the 'spectacle' - a seductive nature and severity of consumer capitalist economy. Debord's analysis applied a critique of commodification by Karl Marx, Georg Lukács and Herbert Marcuse to what is superficially called 'a media' & claimed that alienation was to the higher degree an affective description, however a historically determined effect of capitalist economy. the SI attempted to produce a series of strategies that drew directly on the traditions of Dada and Surrealism.

A SI at a start drew membership from either the Lettrists - a post-Surrealist class action of writers & poets dedicated to the destruction of bourgeois values by reducing the written word to onomatopoeic syllables. Still, a SI broke by using a formal aims of the Lettrists &, when subsuming tremendously of their membership, were fully established in their have correct by 1959 after an intense period of theoretical analysis, publications & expulsions of various members.

A SI come typically attributed when existence one of a key ideologic catalysts for the Can 1968 revolution centered around Paris.

A original edition of Debord's earliest books, Memories, was attached sustaining the emery paper handle therefore that it would kill more books positioned next thereto.

He committed suicide in November 30, 1994.

Films
Hurlements nut faveur delaware Sade 1952

[Howlings in favor of Sade] Sur lupus erythematosus passage delaware quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité delaware temporary, Paris, 1959 (short film, Dansk-Fransk Experimentalfilmskompagni). [On the passage of some persons through a rather short period of time] Critique first state la séparation, Paris, 1961 (short film, Dansk-Fransk Experimentalfilmskompagni). [Critique of seperation] La Société du spectacle, Paris, 1973 (Simar Films) [The Society of the Spectacle] Réfutation delaware tous les jugements, tant élogieux qu’hostiles, qui ont été jusqu’ici portés tyre lupus erythematosus film « La Société du spectacle », Paris, 1975 (short film, Simar Films). [Refutation of all judgements whether hostile or in praise which up to now where given on the film 'The Society of the Spectacle'] Inside girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (Simar Films) 1978 [in circles we spin nightly and are consumed by fire] This film which was intended to become Debord's go 1 is largely autobiographical however begins using the thorough & pitiless critique of the spectator Guy Debord, boy art, boy temporary, 1995 (television film, by Guy Debord and Brigitte Cornand, Canal +) [Guy Debord - his art and his time]

Bibliography
Works by Debord
To Put an Prevent to Nihilistic Comfort 1953 Memories 1959 La Société du spectacle,1967, numerous editions, within English: A Society of the Spectacle, Zone Books 1995 Œuvres cinématographiques complètes 1978, new edition within 1994, in English: Complete Cinematic Works: Scripts, Stills, & Documents, AK Click Distribution 2003 Commentaires tyre la société du spectacle1988, in English: Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, Verso 1990

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A Few Extra Remarks on "Guy Debord - Revolutionary"
Comments by the author, Len Bracken

Guy Debord 
philosophe, sociologue, stratège ou poète ?

Debord: Assimilated!
Guy Debord meets the Borg.

Turning Gold into Lead
Len Bracken's criticsm of Donald Nicholson-Smith's poor translation of Debord's "Society of the Spectacle".

We Go Round and Round in the Night and Are Consumed by Fire
Analysis of Guy Debord's film "In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimurm Igni".

Skeleton Key to Guy Debord
A biographical timeline from psychogeographer Len Bracken.

Perspectives for Conscious Alterations in Everyday Life
Guy Debord's 1961 talk, originally transcribed in Situationist International #6. Republished in Kaperaster.






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