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Pushing the art of protest to new limits

Edit BBC News 28 Apr 2016
If you were going to use art as a form of protest, would you (a) drop an unannounced album on Tidal accompanied by a one-hour special on HBO, or (b) nail your genitals to a paving stone?. I (like you, I'm guessing) would go for A. But that's not an option ... His reference points include Guy Debord's Situationist International movement, the Sex Pistols and Kazimir Malevich - and less obviously, Lucien Freud and Caravaggio ... Briefly ... ....

London Has Fallen: can city siege movies survive the age of terror?

Edit The Guardian 13 Apr 2016
Watching landmarks being blown up used to be thrilling. But can we enjoy films like Bastille Day, Made in France and London Has Fallen in the same way after the Paris and Brussels attacks?. In London Has Fallen, the Italian prime minister is on the roof of one of Westminster Abbey’s towers, canoodling with a woman 30 years his junior ... Related ... Facebook. Twitter. Pinterest ... Twitter ... Facebook ... The Parisian situationist Guy Debord once wrote ... ....

Trump is more a media gimmick than presidential material

Edit Khaleej Times 29 Mar 2016
Donald Trump may not become president of the United States but he already lords over the Internet. You can't escape him in the cyber-verse; you'd need an entire Wikipedia (a Trumpopedia, perhaps) to catalogue all the matter he's generated ... It also features French philosophers like Guy Debord and Francois Debrix, who would otherwise be daunting and incomprehensible to the rest of humanity. For instance, ponder over Debord's declaration ... ....

Paris Fashion Week: The autumn/winter 2016 shows were all about intimacy, which is certainly fitting ...

Edit The Independent 10 Mar 2016
Those two ideas are intimacy and spectacle, opposites that often prove attractive, leading designers to tussle with the problem of sating urges for both at once. Because, although fashion itself breeds spectacle – of the flashy PT Barnum variety, and of the darker Guy Debord breed – clothing is, fundamentally, intimate ... ....

Pari Fashion Week: The autumn/winter 2016 shows were all about intimacy, which is certainly fitting ...

Edit The Independent 10 Mar 2016
Those two ideas are intimacy and spectacle, opposites that often prove attractive, leading designers to tussle with the problem of sating urges for both at once. Because, although fashion itself breeds spectacle – of the flashy PT Barnum variety, and of the darker Guy Debord breed – clothing is, fundamentally, intimate ... ....

Videogames and the art of spatial storytelling

Edit Kill Screen 01 Mar 2016
French philosopher Guy Debord talked about the idea of the dérive, a mode of travel where the journey itself is more important that the destination, where travelers “let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.” But to think of dérive as a kind of random stroll dominated by chance encounters would be to miss Debord’s essential point....

“Artists are Part of the Working Class”: An Interview with Sole

Edit CounterPunch 29 Feb 2016
Portland, Maine isn’t exactly a hip-hop mecca and Tim Holland isn’t the first image that comes to mind when we think of a rapper. Performing under the stage name Sole, this red headed vegan mixes dense, brooding beats with stream of consciousness rhymes that deconstruct hip-hop conventions. In his lyrics, he’s paid homage to Guy Debord and the Sugar Hill Gang ... a superfluous worker turning into a ... A little later, I discovered Guy Debord....

The 1975: I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It review – great pop, if not great art

Edit The Guardian 25 Feb 2016
4 / 5 stars. A severe case of the Serious Artists can’t dispel the fact that the 1975’s second album is packed full of fantastic pop songs and smart lyrics. @alexispetridis ... advance publicity suggests that listeners should prepare for something strange, confounding and experimental ... Related ... “I’m the Greek economy of cashing intellectual cheques,” he shrugs on Loving Someone, immediately after making a clanging reference to Guy Debord ... ....

The Reign of the Internet

Edit CounterPunch 15 Jan 2016
In the 1973 film , Guy Debord described the total domination of the industrialized capitalist economy over the psyche of 20th Century humankind, and the resulting separation of modern urban society from reality ... Controlling consciousness through mass communication via the Internet has created what the French philosopher Debord described as , “in which advertising has become the only factor” ... ....

There's Always Another Way Home

Edit Huffington Post 14 Dec 2015
We often fall into routines and patterns that dictate our movements. We follow the same paths to-and-from work ... According to French theorist Guy Debord, the d�rive is a concept of letting go of one's "usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and letting themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there." ... It is also a way to escape ... ....

Interview With Tatiana Trouv�

Edit Huffington Post 18 Nov 2015
Tatiana Trouv� in her studio whit Lula. Photo credit. Alastair Miller ... Her creations and locations are like tracks left by the soul that reveal an inward-looking universe ... Tatiana Trouv�. Desire Lines 2015 ... 350 x 760 x 950 cm ... Selma to Montgomery March (21 March 1965), Woman Suffrage Parade (3 March 1913), projects by "walking artists" like Richard Long or Hamish Fulton, poems by Baudelaire or Andr� Breton, essays by Guy Debord or Henry D ... ....

Cate Blanchett as you've never seen her before

Edit Canberra Times 09 Nov 2015
A whiskery old man hoves into view on the parapet of a ruined industrial building, screaming into a megaphone in what seems to be a Glaswegian accent ... His voice drops to a growl and the words become clear ... It can't be, but it is ... A denunciation of capitalism by the John Reed Club is muddled up with pronouncements from Russian constructivist Rodchenko and Guy Debord, the situationist who reminded us that under the pavement lay the beach....

Becoming Neorealism

Edit CounterPunch 06 Nov 2015
“Film analysis has become an art without a future. … There are no longer, or should no longer be, any analyses of films. There are just gestures.”. — Raymond Bellour, 2006. This year being the 70th anniversary of the debut of Roberto Rossellini’s Rome ... . ... ... The irrational, obscurantist, totalizing effect of fascist disciplinary spectacle had been “the type of environment [that] ‘deceives’ the senses”—in Guy Debord’s words in ... ....
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