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Friday, 8 July 2011

Society of the Spectacle

Translation

Guy Debord - Rewriting of Marxism replacing the  commodity with the image.

Debord was an alcoholic who committed suicide in 1994.

He still belived in a real  self and truth are accessible c.f Baudrillard
(perhaps this is source of his melancholy and escapism)

Encouraged 'Derive' as a response to the separation engendered by society of the spectacle
He redesigned it from that of the surrealists/Baudlaire as a political act

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