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Bureau of Public Secrets - situationist texts and translations

η πρηνής θέση του σκοπευτή The Society of the Spectacle The first version of this translation of The Society of the Spectacle was completed and posted online at my “Bureau of Public Secrets” website in 2002. The first print version was published by Rebel Press (London) in 2004 and several other editions were subsequently published in various print and digital formats. Meanwhile I continued to fine-tune the version on my website. There have been several previous English translations of Debord’s book. Regardless of such differences, I am pleased to note that my friends Lorraine Perlman (Fredy’s widow) and Donald Nicholson-Smith have graciously expressed enthusiastic support for the idea of providing annotations. Many people have told me that they became discouraged by the opening pages of the book and gave up. The book is not, however, as difficult or abstract as it is reputed to be. As I noted in The Joy of Revolution: In short, you can really understand this book only by using it. I hope this new edition helps you break out of that mold.

The Revolution of Everyday Life (Raoul Vaneigem Dedication To Ella, Maldoror and those who helped this adventure upon its way. “I LIVE ON THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE AND I DON’T NEED TO FEEL SECURE.” “Man walketh in a vain shew, he shews to be a man, and that’s all.” We seem to live in the State of variety, wherein we are not truly living but only in appearance: in Unity is our life: in one we are, from one divided, we are no longer. From: “Heights in Depths and Depths in Heights (or TRVTH no less secretly than sweetly sparkling out its Glory from under a cloud of Obloquie)” by the Ranter Jo. Introduction I have no intention of revealing what there is of my life in this book to readers who are not prepared to relive it. The world must be remade; all the specialists in reconditioning will not be able to stop it. As for the others, I ask for their goodwill with a humility they will not fail to perceive. I have never pretended to reveal anything new or to launch novelties onto the culture market. Part I. Chapter 1. Chapter 2.

Ministerie van Agitatie Guy Debord Guy Ernest Debord (French: [dəbɔʁ]; December 28, 1931 – November 30, 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International (SI). He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie. Early life[edit] Guy Debord was born in Paris in 1931. Guy's father, Martial, was a pharmacist who died due to illness when Guy was young. Involvement with the Letterists[edit] Debord joined the Letterist International when he was 19. Founding of the Situationist International[edit] In 1957, the Lettrist International, the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association gathered in Alba, Italy, to found the Situationist International, with Debord having been the leading representative of the Lettrist delegation. Political phase of the Situationist International[edit] After the Situationist International[edit] Written works[edit] Films[edit]

Murray Bookchin - (1/8) - 'Urbanization Against Cities' - 1993 The Society of the Spectacle by Guy-Ernest Debord But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness. Feuerbach, Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity 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 images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be reestablished. The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as all of society, as part of society, and as instrument of unification. In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

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Gloria and Monica In Honor of the Arrival of the WeathermenBilly Graham PresentsFragmentary OppositionThe dance of revolutionIs This Our Fate?The End of CPEYou are wandering...Godard Disruption Address to Women’s LiberationGloria and Monica [Photo of Che Guevara’s corpse] The International Liberation School announces its first required course: Why pay pig morticians who use wood ripped off from the People of the Third World? With the advance of the cybernetic welfare state, the alienation of the proletariat is intensified. [January 1970] [Painting of crucifixion, with photos of the Chicago Eight pasted over the heads of Jesus and the saints] The Left abounds with Christ-figures. “Fragmentary opposition is like the teeth on a cogwheel: they marry one another and make the machine go ’round, the machine of the spectacle, the machine of power.” [On the Spectacle cogwheel it says “Keep on grindin’.” The dance of these inseparable projects, floating free, continually changing, founds the revolutionary project.

Liberation Lit | A Journal of Art and Issues from Mainstay Press <b>cultureandcommunication.org</b>/galloway/Debord Debord's Nostalgic Algorithm Alexander R. Galloway Published in Culture Machine #10 (2009): 131-156. 'I await the end of Cinema with optimism,' Jean-Luc Godard announced in 1965. Guy Debord never recovered from the crisis of the 1970s. These times were times of crisis. Moro's body was discovered in the trunk of a red Renault R4 hatchback; he had been shot ten times. The decade of the seventies was long in Italy. Much has been said about Debord being at those May barricades, certainly in spirit if not also in the flesh, with Situationist graffiti festooning the pediments of respectable French society. Although Debord had declined to engage significantly with Negri or Moro, he had indeed monkey wrenched with the Italian political scene by helping Gianfranco Sanguinetti author his August, 1975 hoax pamphlet 'The True Report on the Last Chance to Save Capitalism in Italy,' as well as translating the text from Italian to French. The game proceeds in turns.

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