Guy Debord: Everything

Guy Debord was French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI). Explore interesting quotes on everything.

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“The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.”

Guy Debord book The Society of the Spectacle

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”

Guy Debord

Source: Society of the Spectacle (1967), Ch. 1, sct. 1.

“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 happens…. spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.”

Guy Debord book Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988)

“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 of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”

Guy Debord

Vol. 1, pt. 1.
Panegyric (1989)