Guy Debord

Content by or about Guy-Ernest Debord (1931 - 1994), a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Lettrist International and founding member of the Situationist International. Debord is best known for his book "Society of the Spectacle".

Introduction to Guy Debord

Debord's New Book (review) - by The Red Menace

The Red Menace was produced by an informal group of communists and appeared for several issues in late 1980s London. It contained news and…

Theory of the Dérive - Guy Debord

Debord on drifting, psychogeography etc. Translated by Ken Knabb (slightly modified from the version in the Situationist International Anthology).

A colour photograph of cars and bicycles driving in front of the Arc de Triomphe

Situationist Theses on Traffic - Guy Debord

Debord on traffic.

Perspectives for Conscious Changes in Everyday Life - Guy Debord

Perspectives for Conscious Changes in Everyday Life

The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy - Guy Debord

Debord on the Watts riots in LA. From International Situationniste #10 (March 1966).

The Organization Question for the SI - Guy Debord

From Internationale Situationniste #12 (September 1969).

Pre-Situationist International Documents

Pre-Situationist International Documents A series of documents by later SI members.

Society of the spectacle - Guy Debord

French Situationist Guy Debord's seminal analysis of consumer capitalism in the late 20th century.

Theses on the Situationist International and Its Time

Debord and Sanguinetti look back over the history of the Situationists and rather optimistically attempt to place them in historical perspective.

Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program

This text is described in Internationale Situationniste #5 (p. 11) as "a platform for discussion within the SI, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement." Translated by Ken Knabb (slightly modified from the version in the Situationist International Anthology).

Pourquoi le lettrisme?

Debord and Wolman survey the wreckage of radical art movements.