Guy Debord - Wikipedia Guy Debord From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search French Marxist theorist For the town in Kentucky, see Debord, Kentucky. Guy Debord Born Guy Louis Debord (1931-12-28)28 December 1931 Paris, France Died 30 November 1994(1994-11-30) (aged 62) Bellevue-la-Montagne, Haute-Loire, France Alma mater University of Paris Era 20th-century philosophy Region Western philosophy School Continental philosophy Western Marxism/Ultra-left Letterist International Situationist Main interests Social theory Reification Commodity fetishism Class struggle Social alienation Notable ideas Spectacle Détournement Psychogeography Dérive Recuperation Influences Karl Marx · Anton Pannekoek · Isidore Isou · Comte de Lautréamont · Georges Bataille • Friedrich Engels • György Lukács · Jean-Paul Sartre · Henri Lefebvre • Marquis de Sade · Cornelius Castoriadis • G. W. F. 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Mémoires On the Poverty of Student Life Report on the Construction of Situations The Revolution of Everyday Life The Society of the Spectacle Organizations Letterist International Golden Fleet Gruppe SPUR International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus (IMIB) Situationist International Council for Maintaining the Occupations Second Situationist International Related articles Anarchist communism Autonomism Constructivism Council communism Left communism Libertarian Marxism Libertarian socialism Ultra-leftism Youth International Party  Anarchism portal  Socialism portal  Communism portal Politics portal v t e Guy Louis Debord (/dəˈbɔːr/; French: [gi dəbɔʁ]; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International.[1] He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie. Contents 1 Early life 2 Involvement with the Letterists 3 Founding of the Situationist International 4 Political phase of the Situationist International 5 After the Situationist International 6 Death 7 Legacy 8 Written works 9 Films 10 Bibliography 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External links Early life[edit] Guy Debord (also known as "Debord Guy") was born in Paris in 1931. Debord's father, Martial, was a pharmacist who died when Debord was young. Debord's mother, Paulette Rossi, sent Guy to live with his grandmother in her family villa in Italy. During World War II, the Rossis left the villa and began to travel from town to town. As a result, Debord attended high school in Cannes, where he began his interest in film and vandalism.[2] As a young man, Debord actively opposed the French war in Algeria and joined in demonstrations in Paris against it.[3] Debord studied law at the University of Paris, but left early and did not complete his university education. After ending his stint at the University of Paris, he began his career as a writer.[4] Involvement with the Letterists[edit] Debord joined the Letterist International when he was 18. The Letterists were led dictatorially by Isidore Isou until a widely agreed upon schism ended Isou's authority. This schism gave rise to several factions of Letterists, one of which was decidedly led by Debord upon Gil Wolman's unequivocal recommendation.[5] In the 1960s, Debord led the Situationist International group, which influenced the Paris Uprising of 1968, during which he took part in the occupation of the Sorbonne. Some consider his book The Society of the Spectacle (1967) to be a catalyst for the uprising,[6] although perhaps a more immediately significant text was Mustapha Khayati's "On the Poverty of Student Life", published in November 1966. Founding of the Situationist International[edit] In 1957, the Letterist International, the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association gathered in Cosio d'Arroscia (Imperia), Italy, to found the Situationist International, with Debord having been the leading representative of the Letterist delegation. Initially made up of a number of well-known artists such as Asger Jorn and Pinot Gallizio, the early days of the SI were heavily focused on the formulation of a critique of art, which would serve as a foundation for the group's future entrance into further political critiques. The SI was known for a number of its interventions in the art world, which included one raid against an international art conference in Belgium during 1958[7] that included a large pamphlet drop and significant media coverage, all of which culminated in the arrest of various situationists and sympathizers associated with the scandal. In addition to this action, the SI endeavored to formulate industrial painting, or, painting prepared en masse with the intent of defaming the original value largely associated with the art of the period. In the course of these actions, Debord was heavily involved in the planning and logistical work associated with preparing these interventions, as well as the work for Internationale Situationniste associated with theoretical defense of the Situationist International's actions.[8] Political phase of the Situationist International[edit] In the early 1960s Debord began to direct the SI toward an end of its artistic phase, eventually expelling members such as Jorn, Gallizio, Troche, and Constant—the bulk of the "artistic" wing of the SI—by 1965. Having established the situationist critique of art as a social and political critique, one not to be carried out in traditional artistic activities, the SI began, due in part to Debord's contributions, to pursue a more concise theoretical critique of capitalist society along Marxist lines. With Debord's 1967 work, The Society of the Spectacle, and excerpts from the group's journal, Internationale Situationniste, the Situationists began to formulate their theory of the spectacle, which explained the nature of late capitalism's historical decay. In Debord's terms, situationists defined the spectacle as an assemblage of social relations transmitted via the imagery of class power, and as a period of capitalist development wherein "all that was once lived has moved into representation".[9] With this theory, Debord and the SI would go on to play an influential role in the revolts of May 1968 in France, with many of the protesters drawing their slogans from Situationist tracts penned or influenced by Debord.[10][11] After the Situationist International[edit] Published by Éditions Gérard Lebovici (1990) In 1972, Debord disbanded the Situationist International after its original members, including Asger Jorn and Raoul Vaneigem, quit or were expelled. (Vaneigem wrote a biting criticism of Debord and the International.[12]) Debord then focused on filmmaking with financial backing from the movie mogul and publisher Gérard Lebovici (éditions Champ Libre), until Lebovici's mysterious death. Debord was suspected of Lebovici's murder. Distraught by the accusations and his friend's death, Debord took his films and writings out of production until after his death. He had agreed to have his films released posthumously at the request of the American researcher, Thomas Y. Levin.[13] Debord's two most recognized films are Society of the Spectacle (1973) and "In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni [fr]" (1978). After dissolving the Situationist International, Debord spent his time reading, and occasionally writing, in relative isolation in a cottage at Champot with Alice Becker-Ho, his second wife. He continued to correspond on political and other issues, notably with Lebovici and the Italian situationist Gianfranco Sanguinetti.[14] He focused on reading material relating to war strategies, e.g. Clausewitz and Sun Tzu, and he designed a war game with Alice Becker-Ho.[15] Debord married twice, first to Michèle Bernstein and then Alice Becker-Ho. Debord had affairs with other women, including Michèle Mochot-Bréhat. Bernstein wrote a vaguely fictional but detailed account of the open relationships Mochot and she had with Debord in her novel All The King's Horses. Death[edit] Just before Debord's death, he filmed (although did not release) a documentary, Son art et son temps (His Art and His Times), an autobiography of sorts that focused primarily on social issues in Paris in the 1990s. It has been suggested that his dark depiction of this period was a suicide note of sorts. Both Debord's depression and alcohol consumption had become problematic, resulting in a form of polyneuritis. Perhaps to end the suffering caused by these conditions, Debord died by suicide on 30 November 1994. This was not the first time he attempted to end his life.[16] Debord's suicide is as controversial as it is unclear.[17] Some assert it was a revolutionary act related to his career. Due to his involvement with the radical Situationist International (SI), as well as his sadness at 'the society as a spectacle' being considered a cliché in later life, many think that Debord felt hopeless about the very society he was trying to shed light on. Debord was said to be "victim of the Spectacle he fought".[18] Among the many commentaries on Debord's demise, one scholar noted: "Guy Debord did not kill himself. He was murdered by the thoughtlessness and selfishness of so-called scholars (primarily trendy lit-criters) who colonized his brilliant ideas and transformed his radical politics into an academic status symbol not worth the pulp it's printed on…"[19] Legacy[edit] On 29 January 2009, fifteen years after his death, Christine Albanel, Minister of Culture, classified the archive of his works as a "national treasure" in response to a sale request by Yale University.[20][21] The Ministry declared that "he has been one of the most important contemporary thinkers, with a capital place in history of ideas from the second half of the twentieth century."[22] Similarly, Debord once called his book, The Society of the Spectacle, "the most important book of the twentieth century".[citation needed] He continues to be a canonical and controversial figure particularly among European scholars of radical politics and modern art.[citation needed] Written works[edit] This section does not cite any sources. 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works are his theoretical books, The Society of the Spectacle[11] and Comments on the Society of the Spectacle. In addition to these he wrote a number of autobiographical books including Mémoires, Panégyrique, Cette Mauvaise Réputation..., and Considérations sur l'assassinat de Gérard Lebovici. He was also the author of numerous short pieces, sometimes anonymous, for the journals Potlatch, Les Lèvres Nues, Les Chats Sont Verts, and Internationale Situationniste. The Society of the spectacle was written in an "interesting prose", unlike most writings in that time or of that nature. For Debord, the Spectacle is viewed as false representations in our real lives. The Spectacle is a materialized worldview. The spectacle 'subjects human beings to itself'.[23] Debord was deeply distressed by the hegemony of governments and media over everyday life through mass production and consumption. He criticized both the capitalism of the West and the dictatorial communism of the Eastern bloc for the lack of autonomy allowed to individuals by both types of governmental structure. Debord postulated that Alienation had gained a new relevance through the invasive forces of the 'spectacle' – "a social relation between people that is mediated by images" consisting of mass media, advertisement, and popular culture.[4] The spectacle is a self-fulfilling control mechanism for society. Debord's analysis developed the notions of "reification" and "fetishism of the commodity" pioneered by Karl Marx and Georg Lukács. Semiotics was also a major influence, particularly the work of his contemporary, Roland Barthes, who was the first to envisage bourgeois society as a spectacle, and to study in detail the political function of fashion within that spectacle.[24] Debord's analysis of "the spectaclist society" probed the historical, economic, and psychological roots of the media and popular culture.[11] Central to this school of thought was the claim that alienation is more than an emotive description or an aspect of individual psychology: rather, it is a consequence of the mercantile form of social organization that has reached its climax in capitalism, as theorized by Herbert Marcuse of the Frankfurt School. The Situationist International (SI), a political/artistic movement organized by Debord and his colleagues and represented by a journal of the same name, attempted to create a series of strategies for engaging in class struggle by reclaiming individual autonomy from the spectacle. These strategies, including "dérive" and "détournement," drew on the traditions of Lettrism. As founder of the SI, it has been suggested that Debord felt driven to generalize and define the values, ideas, and characteristics of the entire group, which may have contributed to his hand-picking and expulsion of members. The hierarchical and dictatorial nature of the SI existed, however, in the groups that birthed it, including the Letterists and the Surrealists. Debord's first book, Mémoires, was bound with a sandpaper cover so that it would damage other books placed next to it.[25] Debord has been the subject of numerous biographies, works of fiction, artworks, and songs, many of which are catalogued in the bibliography by Shigenobu Gonzalves, "Guy Debord ou la Beauté du Negatif." Often, it is suggested that Debord was opposed to the creation of art, however, Debord writes in the Situationist International magazine ("Contre le Cinema") that he believes that "ordinary" (quotidian) people should make "everyday" (quotidian) art; art and creation should liberate from the spectacle, from capitalism, and from the banality of everyday life in contemporary society. In "The Society of the Spectacle," Debord argues that it is the price put on art that destroys the integrity of the art object, not the material or the creation itself. It is important to note that Debord does not equate art to "the spectacle." Films[edit] Debord began an interest in film early in his life when he lived in Cannes in the late 1940s. Debord recounted that, during his youth, he was allowed to do very little other than attend films. He said that he frequently would leave in the middle of a film screening to go home because films often bored him. Debord joined the Lettrists just as Isidore Isou was producing films and the Lettrists attempted to sabotage Charlie Chaplin's trip to Paris through negative criticism. Overall, Debord challenged the conventions of filmmaking; prompting his audience to interact with the medium instead of being passive receivers of information. As a matter of fact, his film Hurlements exclusively consists of a series of black and white screens and silence with a bit of commentary dispersed throughout.[26] Debord directed his first film, Hurlements en faveur de Sade in 1952 with the voices of Michèle Bernstein and Gil Wolman. The film has no images represented; instead, it shows bright white when there is speaking and black when there is not. Long silences separate speaking parts. The film ends with 24 minutes of black silence. People were reported to have become angry and left screenings of this film. The script is composed of quotes appropriated from various sources and made into a montage with a sort of non-linear narrative. Later, through the financial support of Michèle Bernstein and Asger Jorn, Debord produced a second film, Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps, which combined scenes with his friends and scenes from mass media culture. This integration of Debord's world with mass media culture became a running motif climaxing with "The Society of the Spectacle". Debord wrote the book The Society of the Spectacle before writing the movie. When asked why he made the book into a movie, Debord said, "I don't understand why this surprised people. The book was already written like a script". Debord's last film, "Son Art et Son Temps", was not produced during his lifetime. It worked as a final statement where Debord recounted his works and a cultural documentary of "his time". Hurlements en faveur de Sade (Howls for Sade) 1952 Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps (On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time) 1959 (short film, Dansk-Fransk Experimentalfilmskompagni) Critique de la séparation (Critique of Separation) 1961 (short film, Dansk-Fransk Experimentalfilmskompagni) La Société du spectacle (Society of the Spectacle) 1973 (Simar Films) Réfutation de tous les judgements, tant élogieux qu'hostiles, qui ont été jusqu'ici portés sur le film " La Société du spectacle " (Refutation of All the Judgements, Pro or Con, Thus Far Rendered on the Film "The Society of the Spectacle") 1975 (short film, Simar Films) In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni [fr] (a Latin palindrome meaning "We Go Round and Round in the Night, Consumed by Fire") (Simar Films) 1978 – This film was meant to be Debord's last and is largely autobiographical. The script was reprinted in 2007 in No: A Journal of the Arts. Guy Debord, son art, son temps (Guy Debord – His Art and His Time) 1994 (a "sabotage television film" by Guy Debord and Brigitte Cornand, Canal Plus) Complete Cinematic Works (AK Press, 2003, translated and edited by Ken Knabb) includes the scripts for all six of Debord's films, along with related documents and extensive annotations. Bibliography[edit] Debord, Guy (1957). Report on the Construction of Situations. Mémoires, 1959 (co-authored by Asger Jorn), reprinted by Allia (2004), ISBN 2-84485-143-6. La société du spectacle, 1967, numerous editions; in English: The Society of the Spectacle, Zone Books 1995, ISBN 0-942299-79-5. Society of the Spectacle, Rebel Press 2004, ISBN 0-946061-12-2. The Society of the Spectacle: Annotated Edition, Bureau of Public Secrets, 2014, ISBN 978-0-939682-06-5. La Véritable Scission dans L'Internationale, Champ Libre, 1972 (co-authored by Gianfranco Sanguinetti); in English: The Real Split in the International, Pluto Press 2003, ISBN 0-7453-2128-3. Œuvres cinématographiques complètes, Champ Libre, 1978, new edition in 1994; in English: Complete Cinematic Works: Scripts, Stills, and Documents, AK Press 2003, ISBN 1-902593-73-1. Considérations sur l'assassinat de Gérard Lebovici, éditions Gérard Lebovici, 1985; in English: Considerations on the Assassination of Gérard Lebovici, TamTam 2001, ISBN 2-85184-156-4. Le Jeu de la Guerre, 1987; in English A Game of War, Atlas Press 2008, ISBN 978-1-900565-38-7 Commentaires sur la société du spectacle, éditions Gérard Lebovici, 1988; in English: Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, Verso 1990, ISBN 0-86091-302-3. Panégyrique volume 1, 1989; in English: Panegyric, Verso 2004, reprinted 2009, ISBN 1-85984-665-3; in Portuguese: "Panegírico" [2002], ISBN 85-87193-77-5. All the Guy Debord's books and films as well as unpublished texts were gathered in a volume of Œuvres, éditions Gallimard, collection Quarto, Paris, 2006. "The Proletariat as Subject and as Representation"[27] References[edit] ^ "Dead Bored: Debord's Dead! Andrew Hussey on the death of a turbulent thinker". Philosophynow.org. Retrieved 14 July 2017. ^ Bourseiller, Christophe. "Vie et Mort de Guy Debord". Agora. ^ "Pierre Guillaume Remembers Guy Debord". Notbored.org. Retrieved 27 December 2014. ^ a b Jappe, A (1999). Guy Debord, Concept of the Spectacle. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ^ Bourseiller, ibid ^ Andreotti, L. "Review: Leaving the twentieth century: The Situationist International." Journal of Architectural Education, 49(3), p. 197. ^ Internationale Situationniste No. 1, June 1958, pages 29–30, ^ Debord, Guy. Correspondence: The Founding of the Situationist International. Semiotext(e). 2008. ^ Guy Debord (1967). "Society of the Spectacle". marxists.org. ^ Knabb, Ken. Situationist International Anthology. Bureau of Public Secrets, 2007. ^ a b c Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. Zone Books, 1995. ^ "The Veritable Split in the SI", 1972 ^ Guy Debord, "Reflections of the Death of Gérard Lebovici" ^ "Guy Debord". Notbored.org. Retrieved 27 December 2014. ^ Le Jeu de la Guerre: Relevé des positions successives de toutes les forces au cours d'une partie – Guy Debord, Alice Becker-Ho – Livres. ASIN 2070776514. ^ McDonough (2002). Guy Debord and the Situationist International. ^ Andrew Hussey. "The suicide of Guy Debord | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 July 2017. ^ Baker (August 2001). "The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 July 2017. ^ "Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration [1995–2001]". Situationnisteblog.wordpress.com. 11 October 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2017. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 October 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ^ Gallix, Andrew (18 March 2009). "The resurrection of Guy Debord". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 4 May 2010. ^ Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise du 12 fevrier 2009 (texte 120) ^ Debord, Guy (2002). The Society of the Spectacle. Canberra : Hobgoblin Press. ^ Philippe Sollers "L'antifascisme de Barthes", Le Monde // Hors-Série Roland Barthes, Juillet-Août, 2015 ^ "the new shelton wet/dry". Newshelton.com. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2017. ^ Winestine, Zack (2009). "Howls for Guy Debord". Film Quarterly. 62 (4): 14–15. doi:10.1525/fq.2009.62.4.14. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 September 2007. Retrieved 24 May 2007.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Further reading[edit] Mario Perniola, An Aesthetic of the Grand Style: Guy Debord, in "Substance", 1999, n.90. Internationale situationniste, Paris, 1958–1969. Réédition intégrale chez Van Gennep, Amsterdam 1972, chez Champ Libre 1975, et chez Fayard 1997, ISBN 2-213-59912-2; complete translations are available in German: Situationistische Internationale, Gesammelte Ausgabe des Organs der Situationistischen Internationale, Hamburg: MaD Verlag 1976–1977, ISBN 3-921523-10-9; and in Spanish: Internacional situacionista: textos completos en castellano de la revista Internationale situationniste (1958–1969), Madrid: Literatura Gris [1999–2001], ISBN 84-605-9961-2. The Situationist International by Simon Ford, Black Dog Publishing, 2004, illustrated. Debord: Le naufrageur, Jean-Marie Apostolidès, Flammarion, 2016. Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Greil Marcus, Harvard University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-674-53581-2. Situationist International Anthology, translated and edited by Ken Knabb, Bureau of Public Secrets 1981; Revised and Expanded Edition 2006, ISBN 978-0-939682-04-1. Guy Debord, Anselm Jappe, University of California Press 1999, ISBN 0-520-21204-5. Guy Debord – Revolutionary, Len Bracken, Feral House 1997, ISBN 0-922915-44-X. I situazionisti, Mario Perniola, Roma, Castelvecchi 2005, ISBN 88-7615-068-4. Della critica radicale – bibliografia ragionata sull Internazionale situazionista – con documenti inediti in italiano, Gianluigi Balsebre, Bologna, Grafton 9, 1995. The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord., Andrew Hussey, Cape 2001, ISBN 0-224-04348-X. Guy Debord and the Situationist International, edited by Tom McDonough, MIT Press 2002, ISBN 0-262-13404-7. "The Beautiful Language of my Century": Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945–1968, Tom McDonough, MIT Press 2007, ISBN 0-262-13477-2. Guy Debord, Andy Merrifield, Reaktion 2005, ISBN 1-86189-261-6. 50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International, McKenzie Wark, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2008 ISBN 1-56898-789-7. Los Situacionistas y la Anarquía, Miguel Amorós, Bilbao, Muturreko burutazioak, 2008, ISBN 978-84-88455-98-7. Debord ou la Diffraction du temps, Stéphane Zagdanski, Gallimard, 2008. Fabien Danesi, Le Cinéma de Guy Debord ou la Négativité à l'œuvre : 1952–1994, Paris, Paris expérimental, 2011 ISBN 978-2-912-53942-7. Fabien Danesi, Fabrice Flahutez et Emmanuel Guy, La Fabrique du cinéma de Guy Debord, Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), Actes sud, 2013 ISBN 978-2-330-01756-9. Fabien Danesi, Fabrice Flahutez, Emmanuel Guy, Undercover Guy Debord, (English-French),Paris, Artvenir, 2012 ISBN 978-2953940619. External links[edit] This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. 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