"If [Guy] Debord were alive today, he would almost certainly extend his analysis of the spectacle to the Internet and social media. Debord would no doubt have been horrified by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter, which monetize our friendships, opinions, and emotions. Our internal thoughts and experiences are now commodifiable assets."
#TiernanMorgan, #LaurenPurje, 2016
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Autonomies: Howls for Sade (1952)
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The arts of the future can be nothing less than disruptions of situations. Film by Guy Debord Howls for Sade, a feature-length film created in June 1952, contains no images whatsoever. The soundtrack is accompanied by a completely blank white … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: Guy Debord’s film eye
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Considering the story of my life, it is obvious to me that I cannot produce a cinematic “work” in the usual sense of the term. Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni In the summer heat of a … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: In girum imus nocteet consumimur igni (1978)
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In the present film, for example, I am simply stating a few truths over a background of images that are all trivial or false. This film disdains the image-scraps of which it is composed. I do not wish to preserve … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959)
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The appearance of events that we have not created, of events that others have in fact created against us, now obliges us to be aware of the passage of time and its results, to assess the transformation of our own … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: The Society of the Spectacle (1973)
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In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation. In a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false. … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: The spectacle of power
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Official news is elsewhere. Society broadcasts to itself its own image of its own history, a history reduced to a superficial and static pageant of its rulers — the persons who embody the apparent inevitability of whatever happens. The world … Continue reading →
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