Wow this was unexpected. Pretty sweet article distilling Debord’s Society of the Spectacle through modern images. The detourner has become the detournee, I suppose.
ED. NOTE: Like any “enlightened” college student, I remember listening to Refused’s The Shape of Punk to Come and being totally obsessed with the Situationists and French philosophy in general; watching grainy horrible quality online videos of Society of the Spectacle amongst all the other arduous videos and essays they’ve put out. Definitely changed my perspective (for the better) and plays a huge part in my interests and political stance. It’s an eye-opener for those interested in Marxism and Post-Modernism to say the least. It’s also pretty rad to watch movies like They Live or The Matrix, and how the message resonates so much more after the fact.
Guy Debord’s classic text, plagarized, with pictures! at This Recording
via mollylambert
