Guy Debord Quotes
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.
The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.
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.
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
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.
None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.
An organization must always remember that its objective is not getting people to listen to speeches by experts, but getting them to speak for themselves.
The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.
I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.
Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.
Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity
This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.
Le but n'est rien, le développement est tout. Le spectacle ne veut en venir à rien d'autre qu'à lui-même.
Il est ce qui échappe à l'activité des hommes, à la reconsidération et à la correction de leur œuvre.
Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l'empire de la passivité moderne. Il recouvre toute la surface du monde et baigne indéfiniment dans sa propre gloire.
Partout où il y a représentation indépendante, le spectacle se reconstitue.