Guy Debord
French libertarian Marxist and prominent figure in the Situationist International.
Foreword to the Third French Edition of "The Society of the Spectacle"
new translation of one of Debord's last statements (circa 1992)
Foreword to the third French edition of
The Society of the Spectacle
Translator's introduction to on-line edition of Guy Debord's letters, 1957-1994
Translator's introduction to on-line edition of Guy Debord's letters 1957 to 1994
To Guy Debord in Hell
(please forward if necessary)
http://www.notbored.org/1957-1994.html
"Although I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than the majority of people who write, but I have drunk more than the majority of people who drink." -- Guy Debord, Panegyric (1989)
Guy Debord: National Treasure?
Translation of news article published in 14 June 2009 edition of "Le Monde": in order to pay off Ms Alice Debord, the Bibliotheque nationale Francaise must come up with approximately $500,000 (if not more) to prevent the sale of the complete archives of Guy Debord to someone else (Yale University, perhaps).
"Two hundred people dine together to keep the works of Debord in France"
Le Monde, 14 June 2009
Marxism is Dead! Long Live Marxism - Mike Rooke
An examination of the limits of 2nd & 3rd International 'Orthodox Marxism' and the later theoretical contribution of the Situationist Guy Debord.
From; 'What Next' no. 30, 2005
Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord - Treason pamphlet
Ken Knabb's translation of Guy Debord's book "Society of the Spectacle" in a pamphlet produced by Treason.
The Concept of the Spectacle - Anselm Jappe, Treason pamphlet
First published as ‘Part 1: The Concept of the Spectacle’ in Anselm Jappe’s Guy Debord,
University of California Press, 1999
This edition published by Treason Press, February 2004
Debord, in the Resounding Cataract of Time - David Blanchard
A remembrance of the author's friendship with Guy Debord in the late 1950s and early 60s - with some theoretical reflections.
Written in English by David Blanchard, 1995. First published in Drunken Boat. Also published in Revolutionary Romanticism; edited by Max Blechman, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1999.
Guy Debord obituary
An obituary of Guy Debord written immediately after his death in 1994. The article in Freedom newspaper was headlined "The author of Society of the Spectacle has killed himself".
Theses on the Paris Commune - Situationist International
"...it is time we examine the Commune not just as an outmoded example of revolutionary primitivism, all of whose mistakes can easily be overcome, but as a positive experiment whose whole truth has yet to be rediscovered and fulfilled."
Introduction to Guy Debord
Guy Debord - France, 1931-1994
Guy Debord was a film-maker, writer and libertarian socialist best known as the leading light of the Situationist International. He and the SI were among the first to analyse the phenomenon of consumer capitalism and its effect on people. He committed suicide in 1994.
Key texts: Society of the Spectacle
Groups: Situationist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie
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