Word: debord
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...communication in the 21st century. More and more is said with buzz words and abbreviated slang. It’s getting easier to forget that there was a time when subtle, deliberately constructed letters, ripe with frustration and emotion, were the common form of exchange.Guy Debord lived in such a time. Born in Paris in 1931, he was a founding member of both the Lettrist International and Situationist International movements, and he wrote letters—a lot of them. The SI movement attempted to use art for social and political change. Indeed, SI embraced propaganda—what they...
...political debate. He reversed and flattened the meaning of the words he spoke." Colbert attacked both Bush and "the whole drama and language of American politics, the phony demonstration of strength, unity and vision." All during the dessert course, no less. The Salon piece also drafted Situationist writer Guy Debord as a character witness on Colbert's behalf, who cited the comedian's brilliant "semiotic inversion." Bringing in a French theorist to help you prove someone is funny is like asking a structural engineer to show why Pamela Anderson Lee is attractive: They can help explain how it's done...