Introduction to Guy Debord

Guy Debord - France, 1931-1994
Guy Debord was a film-maker, writer and libertarian socialist best known as the leading light of the Situationist International. He and the SI were among the first to analyse the phenomenon of consumer capitalism and its effect on people. He committed suicide in 1994.

Key texts: Society of the Spectacle
Groups: Situationist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie

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