Writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary, guy debord 19311994 was a founding member of the lettrist international and situationist international groups. Comments on the society of the spectacle, 19881990, pdf. His films and books, including society of the spectacle 1967, were major catalysts for philosophical and political changes in the twentieth century, and helped trigger the may 1968. It was numbered from 1 to 29, with the bulletin dated 17 august 1954 being a triple issue 9, 10, 11. The society of the spectacle is a philosophical text presented in nine chapters and 221short theses. Preveo aleksa golijanin, 2017, na osnovu verzije objavljene u guy debord, ouevres sabrana dela, gallimard, 2006, str. This annotated translation by ken knabb, published in 2014 by the bureau of public secrets, is not ed. Letrista internazionala 19541957 eta situazionista internazionala 19581969 talde ezkertiar eta. A radical artist and theorist of the second half of the twentieth century, debord. A book about guy debordand anselm jappes is far and away the best we have so far. Guy debord andy merrifield though wellknown for his founding of the avantgarde situationist international movement and his prominent political and cultural activism, guy debord was nonetheless a surprisingly elusive and enigmatic figure, spending his last. Against a backdrop of widening climate catastrophe and incessant war, representation appeared as focus of popular outcries in the socalled era of posttruth and new media. For most critics this period is synonymous with debord s retreat from politics, and return via the autobiographical panegyrique 1989 as a man of letters adopted by figures including philippe sollers and michel houellebecq. Potlatch 195457 the bulletin potlatch appeared twentyseven times, between 22 june 1954 and 5 november 1957.
Debords mother, paulette rossi, sent guy to live with his grandmother in her family villa in italy. In january 1977, debord founded the society for strategic and historical games. Ennen toimintaansa situationisteissa debord kuului lettrist. Guy ernest debord was a french marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups lettrist international and situationist international. Philippe sollers one week after guy debords suicide on november 30, 1994. Cured quail is a marxist journal of critical aesthetics, selfpublished in 2018, that takes seriously the appearance of a generalized crisis of representation. A very elegant little book of three essays by guy debord. The three words contain an entire program, and he was jealous of the graffitis use and abuse. Guy louis debord 28 december 1931, paris 30 november 1994, bellevuelamontagne, hauteloire was a french writer, theoretician, filmmaker, poet and revolutionary. Guy debord was one of the founders of the situationist movement of the 1960s.
Guy debord also known as debord guy was born in paris in 1931. Guy debord was born in paris in and committed suicide in a marxist theorist, french writer, poet, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of. The text presents an extensive reinterpretation of the philosophy of marx, with particular focus on commodity fetishism and contemporary mass media. Debords father, martial, was a pharmacist who died when debord was young. He was one of the founders of lettrist international from 1952 to 1957, then of the situationist international from 1957 to 1972, of which he edited the french magazine. Never work by guy debord 1963 marxists internet archive. The following article is dedicated to the analysis of the revolutionary posture exemplified by guy debord in panegyrique, the first volume of his autobiography.
In broad terms, debords theories attempted to account for the spiritually debilitating modernization of the private and public spheres of everyday life by economic forces. Guy ernest debord paris, 1931ko abenduaren 28a bellevuelamontagne, loira garaia, 1994ko azaroaren 30a filosofo marxista, idazle eta zinemagile frantziarra izan zen. But despite the fame and notoriety he accrued during the paris street revolution of 1968, he did his best to escape the burden of celebrity, refusing all interviews, publishing very. Giorgio agamben marginal notes on comments on the society of the spectacle 2 pdf the uses of the body prologue by giorgio agamben it is curious how in guy debord a lucid awareness of the insufficiency of private life was accompanied by a more or less conscious conviction that there was, in. A weekly until this triple issue, potlatch became a monthly upon its 12th issue.