Guy-Ernest Debord was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International.
21 Facts About Guy Debord
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Guy Debord was briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.
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Guy Debord studied law at the University of Paris, but left early and did not complete his university education.
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In 1957, the Letterist International, the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association gathered in Cosio d'Arroscia, Italy, to found the Situationist International, with Guy Debord having been the leading representative of the Letterist delegation.
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In 1972, Guy Debord disbanded the Situationist International after its original members, including Asger Jorn and Raoul Vaneigem, quit or were expelled.
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Guy Debord had agreed to have his films released posthumously at the request of the American researcher, Thomas Y Levin.
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Guy Debord continued to correspond on political and other issues, notably with Lebovici and the Italian situationist Gianfranco Sanguinetti.
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Guy Debord was said to be "victim of the Spectacle he fought".
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Guy Debord's best known works are his theoretical books, The Society of the Spectacle and Comments on the Society of the Spectacle.
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Guy Debord was the author of numerous short pieces, sometimes anonymous, for the journals Potlatch, Les Levres Nues, Les Chats Sont Verts, and Internationale Situationniste.
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Guy Debord was deeply distressed by the hegemony of governments and media over everyday life through mass production and consumption.
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Guy Debord 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.
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Guy Debord's analysis developed the notions of "reification" and "commodity fetishism" pioneered by Karl Marx and Georg Lukacs.
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Guy Debord began an interest in film early in his life when he lived in Cannes in the late 1940s.
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Guy Debord recounted that, during his youth, he was allowed to do very little other than attend films.
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Guy Debord said that he frequently would leave in the middle of a film screening to go home because films often bored him.
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Guy 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.
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Guy Debord directed his first film, Hurlements en faveur de Sade in 1952 with the voices of Michele Bernstein and Gil Wolman.
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Later, through the financial support of Michele Bernstein and Asger Jorn, Guy Debord produced a second film, Sur le passage de quelques personnes a travers une assez courte unite de temps, which combined scenes with his friends and scenes from mass media culture.
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Guy Debord wrote the book The Society of the Spectacle before writing the movie.
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Guy Debord continues to be a canonical and controversial figure particularly among European scholars of radical politics and modern art.