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Guy Debord
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French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)
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Guy Debord (1931–1994) was a French male author whose professional career spanned from 1946 to 1994. He is associated with the tags experimental, noise, situacionismo, and internacional situacionista.
His written output includes fifty-five works, with notable titles such as *Stratégie*, *Theses on the Situationist International and its time*, *Fin de l'ère chrétienne*, *Destruktion af RSG-6*, and *Lettres à Marcel Mariën*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1931
- Died
- 1994
- Works
- 55
Top works
- Stratégie
- Theses on the Situationist International and its time
- Fin de l'ère chrétienne
- Destruktion af RSG-6
- Lettres à Marcel Mariën
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1931-12-28
- Active to
- 1994-11-30
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 625
- Total plays
- 4,138
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Guy Ernest Debord (December 28, 1931 - November 30, 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International (SI). He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie. Guy Debord's best known works are his theoretical books, Society of the Spectacle and Comments on the Society of the Spectacle. In addition to these he wrote a number of autobiographical books including "Mémoires", "Panégyrique"
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
· 1984 · cited 21,449x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,614x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,882x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,451x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,801x
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Quotes
- “Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.”
- “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.”
- “The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.”
- “The spectacle manifests itself as an enormous positivity, out of reach and beyond dispute. All it says is: "Everything that appears is good; whatever is good will appear." The attitude that is demands in principle is the same passive acceptance that it has already secured by means of its seeming incontrovertibly, and indeed by its monopolization of the realm of appearances.”
- “Philosophy is at once the power of alienated thought and the thought of alienated power, and as such it has never been able to emancipate itself from theology.”
- “Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption ... is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Encyclopedic overview
Guy-Ernest Debord (/dəˈbɔːr/ də-BOR; French: [gi dəbɔʁ]; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International. He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie. Debord is best known for his 1967 work, The Society of the Spectacle, alongside his direction to the Letterist and Situationist Magazines.
Biography
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