"The spectacle is not a collection of images,……" — Guy Debord
"The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images."
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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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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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