Guy Debord
French Situationist theorist whose The Society of the Spectacle argued that authentic social life had been replaced by its representation. He co-founded the Situationist International, which heavily influenced the May 1968 uprising in Paris. He made experimental films and committed suicide at 62.
Works
- The Society of the SpectacleCritique of modern spectacle, commodity culture, and passive consumption
- Comments on the Society of the SpectacleThirty years later, responses to critiques of spectacle thesis
- PanegyricAutobiographical reflections on life, cinema, and revolutionary possibility
- In Girum Imus NocteAutobiographical film essay combining image and text
- Report on the Construction of SituationsEssays on revolutionary strategy and the construction of situations