[lbo-talk] Debord's Twitter

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jun 7 11:08:10 PDT 2008


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Name Guy Debord Web <http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord.html> Bio Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

The spectacle is capital to such a degree of accumulation that it becomes an image. 5 months ago from web

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The more his life is now his product, the more lie is separated from his life. 05:39 PM December 10, 2007 from web

and thus finds himself ever more separated from his world. 06:15 PM December 08, 2007 from web

Separated from his product, man himself produces all the details of his world with ever increasing power, 06:13 PM December 08, 2007 from web

What grows with the economy in motion for itself can only be the very alienation which was at its origin. 02:04 AM December 05, 2007 from web

Economic expansion is mainly the expansion of this specific industrial production. 02:58 AM December 04, 2007 from web

The spectacle within society corresponds to a concrete manufacture of alienation. 10:48 AM November 30, 2007 from web

The very powers which escaped us show themselves to us in all their force. 12:01 PM November 29, 2007 from web

The spectacle is the map of this new world, a map which exactly covers its territory. 12:45 PM November 28, 2007 from web

All the time and space of his world become foreign to him with the accumulation of his alienated products. 09:09 PM November 26, 2007 from web

The success of this production, its abundance, returns to the producer as an abundance of dispossession. 11:13 PM November 25, 2007 from web

The worker does not produce himself; he produces an independent power. 06:53 PM November 24, 2007 from web

This is why the spectator feels at home nowhere, because the spectacle is everywhere. 01:56 PM November 23, 2007 from web

of another who represents them to him. 12:34 PM November 21, 2007 from web

The externality of the spectacle in relation to the active man appears in the fact that his own gestures are no longer his but those... 12:34 PM November 21, 2007 from web

the more he accepts recognizing himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and his own desires. 01:28 PM November 20, 2007 from web

in the following way: the more he contemplates the less he lives; 01:28 PM November 20, 2007 from web

The alienation of the spectator to the profit of the contemplated object (which is the result of his own unconscious activity) is expressed 01:27 PM November 20, 2007 from web

The spectacle reunites the separate, but reunites it as separate. 10:45 PM November 18, 2007 from web

What binds the spectators together is no more than an irreversible relation at the very center which maintains their isolation. 04:04 PM November 14, 2007 from web



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