"As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as……" — Guy Debord
"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 they actually live."
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38 Quotes by Guy Debord
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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
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The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
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The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish…
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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to…
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Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
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What appears is good; what is good appears.
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No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead…
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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved…
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With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics,…
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Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe…
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What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is…
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Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly…
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