Guy Debord, author of The Society of the Spectacle. Shot himself, 30 November 1994.
Chris adds [11.30.2002]: The excellent, anarchist Daily Bleed provides these useful Debord links:
1994 — Guy Debord dies, Champot, Upper Loire, France.Member of the Situationist International, writer, filmmaker, critic of Spectacular, Too-Late Capitalism, best known for his book The Society of the Spectacle, popularized with the May Uprising of 1968.
In the decor of the
spectacle, the eye meets only
things & their prices.
— graffiti, May 1968http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/graffiti.htm
In a society
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.’http://members.optusnet.com.au/~rkeehan/
http://www.nothingness.org/SI/simisc/marshallobit.html
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/marxiens/politic/situs.htm
http://www.mital-u.ch/Dada/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6824/debord.htm
http://burn.ucsd.edu/paris.htm
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id112/pg1.htmlWe are all “undesirables”.
Then appeared for the first time the disquieting figures
of the “Situationist International”. How many are there?
Where do they come from? No one knows.— Le Républicain Lorra
Nick writes [30.11.2002]: Not so, in my experience. I buy a new pair every couple of years, and that’s plenty to be getting on with. There’s no need for an “immense accumulation”, especially as my prescription changes (albeit slowly); also, the old specs are pretty grotty by the time I need to replace them.