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Guy Debord

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A theorist who identified the nihilist undercurrent flowing through Red Scare-adjacent online spaces, as referenced in discussion of Anna Khachiyan's contrarianism.

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"Read society of spectacle again and START 👏 LYING 👏 You can't escape the spectacle so become a part of it. Or do a debord and minecraft yourself. Those are the only options."
"I think that debor guy was onto something when he pointed out the nihilist undercurrent that flows through these types of redscare online places, despite Anna reiterating she's a 'deeply principled' person."
It's been funny watching online Millennials age into their 30s · u/Sheepsaysmoo · ↑91 · 2022-04-29
"The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudo-world that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world has cu"
"One of the basic situationist practices is the dérive, a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences. Dérives involve playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll."
Guy Debord's Theory of Dérive, aka aimless urban drifting · u/Athousandlashes · ↑45 · 2022-09-18
"Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence."
Guy Debord · u/twinkhater · ↑43 · 2020-05-31
"Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle"
Share your top 5 nonfiction books · u/Philitian · ↑37 · 2023-01-24
"Debord explains that advanced capitalist countries in times of crisis needs a concentrated spectacle of violence and terror. The Trump government tried it with killing Al-Baghdadi and Soleimani, but most Americans didn't even know who these people were, there were no clear semiotics of how this spec"
spectacle politics is the geopolitics for the boomers that be · u/clydethefrog · ↑32 · 2026-01-03
"Just today some genius posted like a 15 word text post about how therapy is bad, but that's it, literally nothing expanded upon - but hey one of those words was hyper-normalization so he probably felt like Debord reborn writing that shit."
"one of those words was hyper-normalization so he probably felt like Debord reborn writing that shit"
"One of the basic situationist practices is the dérive, a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences. Dérives involve playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects"
Guy Debord's Theory of Dérive, aka aimless urban drifting · u/Athousandlashes · ↑45 · 2022-09-18
"Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence."
Guy Debord · u/twinkhater · ↑43 · 2020-05-31
"Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle"
Share your top 5 nonfiction books · u/Philitian · ↑37 · 2023-01-24
"every gadd'amn day i wish jean baudrillard and mark fischer and walter benjamin and guy debord and susan sontag and g. w. f. hegel himself were all here to watch the hulu continuation with me"
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