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".

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.

The Situationists and the New Forms of Action in Politics and Art

In 1963, Debord discusses the emerging forces of contestation.

For a Revolutionary Judgment of Art

"The point is not to engage in some sort of revolutionary art-criticism, but to make a revolutionary critique of all art."