Guy Debord

Also known as Guy Louis Marie Vincent Ernest Debord, Guy-Ernest Debord, G. Debord, Guy Louis Debord

French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)

AI overview

Guy Debord was a French Marxist theorist, writer, and filmmaker who lived from 1931 to 1994. His work analyzing modern consumer culture and spectacle remains influential in critical theory and cultural studies.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 1931
Died: 1994
Works: 55

Top works

Stratégie
Theses on the Situationist International and its time
Fin de l'ère chrétienne
Destruktion af RSG-6
Lettres à Marcel Mariën

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1931-12-28
Active to: 1994-11-30

Discogs

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 625
Total plays: 4,138

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
· 1984 · cited 21,398x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,267x
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,130x
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,740x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

“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.”
“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.”
“The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.”
“The spectacle manifests itself as an enormous positivity, out of reach and beyond dispute. All it says is: "Everything that appears is good; whatever is good will appear." The attitude that is demands in principle is the same passive acceptance that it has already secured by means of its seeming incontrovertibly, and indeed by its monopolization of the realm of appearances.”
“Philosophy is at once the power of alienated thought and the thought of alienated power, and as such it has never been able to emancipate itself from theology.”
“Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption ... is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Wikidata facts

Image: Guy Debord, painted portrait.jpg

Show 7 more facts

Commons category: Guy Debord
name in native language: Guy Debord
date of birth: 1931-12-28
date of death: 1994-11-30
birth name: Guy-Ernest Debord
start of work period: 1946-01-01
end of work period: 1994-01-01

Sources (6)

via Wikidata · CC0

~15 min read

Article

Guy-Ernest Debord (/dəˈbɔːr/ də-BOR; French: [gi dəbɔʁ]; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International. He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie. Debord is best known for his 1967 work, The Society of the Spectacle, alongside his direction to the Letterist and Situationist Magazines.

Biography