“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.” — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life. — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life. — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“The need to imitate that the consumer experiences is truly an infantile need, one determined by every aspect of his fundamental disposession.… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“The first stage of the economy’s domination of social life brought about an evident degradation of being into having — human fulfillment… — 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… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“Stars — spectacular representations of living human beings — project this general banality into images of permitted roles. As specialists of apparent… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by… — 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 Image
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 Image
“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.” — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
