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Guy Debord

Situationism

Guy Debord

1931–1994

The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation.

Guy Debord was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, and founding member of the Situationist International. His book The Society of the Spectacle is a critique of consumer capitalism and remains highly influential in political philosophy and art theory.

Contribution

Society of the Spectacle, détournement, psychogeography

Key Works

  • The Society of the Spectacle
  • Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
  • Panegyric
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