Guy Debord
French libertarian Marxist and prominent figure in the Situationist International.
Beneath the idol, the bureaucrat
A recently published volume of Guy Debord's early letters provides insights into a singular personality, and the fractious relationships that spawned the Situationist International. But, asks Sam Williams, how does this disenchanting account alter its spectacular legacy?
The SI just refuses to go away', writes Mckenzie Wark in his introduction to Guy Debord's Correspondence. Semiotext(e)'s publication of this book affirms the position. Translated from the French, and subtitled ‘The Foundation of the Situationist International', it is the first of seven volumes of Guy Debord's correspondence.
Psychogeographical Venice
We know Rumney's side of the story: it was unfair that he was kicked out of the SI for not completing his book on Venice in time. But what about Debord's side? He certainly managed to complete his contribution to the project in a timely fashion.
Psychogeographical Venice
The Asturian Strikes of 1962-1963
Guy Debord's accounts of the massive strikes by miners in Franco's Spain, translated into English for the first time.
The Asturian Strike
Ab irato - Guy Debord
Guy Debord on particular medical practices.
Ab irato
This Latin expression, which means "in an angry movement,"[1] should return to usage today, when it is hardly possible to write about any subject without being gripped by anger. And yet, among so many other offenses that one could use to "anger the people" (as one said during the French Revolution), perhaps none are more monstrous than the document(s) we reproduce here.
Youth to Burn: Guy Debord on the fire at Saint-Laurent-du-Pont
Text from 1971, not published during Debord's lifetime.
On the fire at Saint-Laurent-du-Pont
by Guy Debord
Foreword to the Third French Edition of "The Society of the Spectacle"
New translation of one of Debord's last statements (circa 1992).
Foreword to the third French edition of The Society of the Spectacle
Translator's introduction to on-line edition of Guy Debord's letters, 1957-1994
Translator's introduction to on-line edition of Guy Debord's letters 1957 to 1994
To Guy Debord in Hell
(please forward if necessary)
http://www.notbored.org/1957-1994.html
"Although I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than the majority of people who write, but I have drunk more than the majority of people who drink." -- Guy Debord, Panegyric (1989)
Guy Debord: National Treasure?
Translation of news article published in 14 June 2009 edition of "Le Monde": in order to pay off Ms Alice Debord, the Bibliotheque nationale Francaise must come up with approximately $500,000 (if not more) to prevent the sale of the complete archives of Guy Debord to someone else (Yale University, perhaps).
"Two hundred people dine together to keep the works of Debord in France"
Le Monde, 14 June 2009
Marxism is Dead! Long Live Marxism - Mike Rooke
An examination of the limits of 2nd & 3rd International 'Orthodox Marxism' and the later theoretical contribution of the Situationist Guy Debord.
From; 'What Next' no. 30, 2005
Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord - Treason pamphlet
Ken Knabb's translation of Guy Debord's book "Society of the Spectacle" in a pamphlet produced by Treason.
