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Art
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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
-Guy Debord
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Boredom
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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
-Guy Debord
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Computers
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It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.
-Guy Debord
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Consumerism
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Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
-Guy Debord
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Ego
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There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
-Guy Debord
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Modern, Modernism
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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
-Guy Debord
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Plagiarism
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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
-Guy Debord
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Quotations
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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
-Guy Debord
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Travel
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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
-Guy Debord
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Books by and about Guy Debord