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Primer 5 — SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE: A CUT-UP POEM WITH PLANTS · GUY DEBORD & D’ENTREMONT
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About the Author
Guy Debord (1931-1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, and founding member of the Situationist International.
About the Text
First published as La Société du Spectacle, Paris: Editions Buchet-Chastel, 1967; reprinted Paris: Champ Libre 1971. The first English translation was published by Black & Red in 1970. It was revised in 1977, incorporating numerous improvements suggested by friends and critics of the first translation. The text was run through “Text Weaver” at languageisavirus.com, edited for length and partial clarity.
16 pages; 4×7; Saddle-stitched
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A topsy-turvy World
The content of spectacle invades and
Fuses non-living spectacular societies
In a world which really is topsy-turvy,
the true is false.
One of the system’s abstraction is
The spectacle as the guardian of sleep
Administrating all of its tautological
Mysteries
The reality of a spectacular world of
Spectacle has become a dominated system,
A circular dispossession
That leads to isolation from within:
A foreign sky.
Commodity as Spectacle
Revolutionary theory is now
the enemy of all revolutionary
ideology and knows it.
Commodity-form is spectacle war itself
Develops, points to the negative
And it develops himself a pseudo-use form
That is permanent
of inverted truth
Is self-emancipation
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