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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. ”

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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.

~ Guy Debord

Guy Debord Critical Theory Philosophy

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.

~ Guy Debord

Guy Debord Critical Theory Philosophy

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

~ Guy Debord

Guy Debord Critical Philosophy

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

~ Guy Debord

Guy Debord Critical Theory Philosophy