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10 quotes by Guy Debord

Part of the Politics series on Situationists Basic concepts Internationalism Class consciousness Class struggle Communism Dérive Détournement General strike Recuperation Spectacle Unitary urbanism Workers' council World revolution Influential figures Michèle Bernstein Ivan Chtcheglov Constant Nieuwenhuys Guy Debord Jacqueline de Jong Asger Jorn Attila Kotányi Jørgen Nash Charles Radcliffe Ralph Rumney Alexander Trocchi Raoul Vaneigem René Viénet...
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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's... →

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Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

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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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Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

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As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented... →

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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was... →

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All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.

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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

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