Guy Debord Quotes

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• Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
• The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
• The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is…
• The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is…
• Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
• What appears is good; what is good appears.
• No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that…
• Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question…
• With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.
• Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the…
• What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly…
• Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best…
• The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.
• Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
• Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes…
• All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
• 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…
• It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are…
• As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that…
• 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…

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