Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterised by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal,… — Guy Debord Copy Share
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… — Guy Debord Copy Share
“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.” — Guy Debord Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It… — Guy Debord Copy Share
The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates,… — Guy Debord Copy Share
Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its… — Guy Debord Copy Share
The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life. — Guy Debord Copy Share
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other. — Guy Debord Copy Share
