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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...
...instant replays of real or imagined events, somehow oblivious to all the movements against literal representation that have already occurred in other art forms. Worse still than this aesthetic consequence is the political one: not only do these films record our life-processes; they also process our lives. Guy Debord says: "The spectacle is not a collection of images but a social relation among people mediated by images...
...summertime I work for a cabinet maker who builds handmade furniture-- I work sanding and finishing--and working with me is Billy DeBord. Billy is a Negro, but for the life of me, as much as I try, I can not remember thinking of him as a Negro. He was just Billy to me, and he worked with me sanding and finishing. We ate lunch together, hacked around, met in off-hours to discuss design over coffee, and--though we weren't intimate friends, we were close friends. Billy and I write each other. The thing is that...
...other young people who were both totally awed by the woman. But I was not. To me, she was merely a likeable woman blessed with fortune and a good deal of talent. She was nothing more or less than a human being as much as the workman or Billy DeBord...