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Guy Debord (born December 28, 1931 in Paris; died November 30, 1994 in Auvergne) was a member of the Lettrist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie and a founder and chief essayist of the Situationist International (SI). · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Debord, Guy.

"There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter."

Debord, Guy on Egotism
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"Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit."

Debord, Guy on Materialism
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"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."

Debord, Guy on Modern and Modernism
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"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."

Debord, Guy on Plagiarism
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"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."

Debord, Guy on Arts and Artists
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"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs."

Debord, Guy on Quotations
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"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

Debord, Guy on Bores and Boredom
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"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal."

Debord, Guy on Travel and Tourism
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"It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak."

Debord, Guy on Computers
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