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Guy Debord Quote: “Separation is itself an integral part of the unity of this world, of a global social practice split into reality and image. The social practice confronted by an autonomous spectacle is at the same time the real totality which contains that spectacle. But the split within this totality mutilates it to the point that the spectacle seems to be its goal.”

51. “Separation is itself an integral part of the unity of this world, of a global social practice split into reality and image. The social practice confronted by an autonomous spectacle is at the same time the real totality which contains that spectacle. But the split within this totality mutilates it to the point that the spectacle seems to be its goal.”

Guy Debord Quote: “The spectacle thus unites what is separate, but it unites it only in its separateness.”

52. “The spectacle thus unites what is separate, but it unites it only in its separateness.”

Guy Debord Quote: “The spectacle is the epic poem of this struggle, a struggle that no fall of Troy can bring to an end. The spectacle does not sing of men and their arms, but of commodities and their passions.”

53. “The spectacle is the epic poem of this struggle, a struggle that no fall of Troy can bring to an end. The spectacle does not sing of men and their arms, but of commodities and their passions.”

Guy Debord Quote: “The passions have been sufficiently interpreted; the point now is to discover new ones.”

54. “The passions have been sufficiently interpreted; the point now is to discover new ones.”

Guy Debord Quote: “There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”

55. “There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”

Guy Debord Quote: “Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.”

56. “Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.”

Guy Debord Quote: “He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.”

57. “He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.”

Guy Debord Quote: “So far from realizing philosophy, the spectacle philosophizes reality, and turns the material life of everyone into a universe of speculation.”

58. “So far from realizing philosophy, the spectacle philosophizes reality, and turns the material life of everyone into a universe of speculation.”

Guy Debord Quote: “The need to imitate that the consumer experiences is truly an infantile need, one determined by every aspect of his fundamental disposession. In terms used by Gabel to describe quite another level of pathology, “the abnormal need for representation here compensates for a torturing feeling of being at the margin of existence”.”

59. “The need to imitate that the consumer experiences is truly an infantile need, one determined by every aspect of his fundamental disposession. In terms used by Gabel to describe quite another level of pathology, “the abnormal need for representation here compensates for a torturing feeling of being at the margin of existence”.”

Guy Debord Quote: “Here, in order to remain human, men must remain the same.”

60. “Here, in order to remain human, men must remain the same.”

Guy Debord Quote: “I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.”

61. “I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.”

Guy Debord Quote: “History has always existed, but not always in a historical form.”

62. “History has always existed, but not always in a historical form.”

Guy Debord Quote: “Though separated from what they produce, people nevertheless produce every detail of their world with ever-increasing power. They thus also find themselves increasingly separated from that world. The closer their life comes to being their own creation, the more they are excluded from that life.”

63. “Though separated from what they produce, people nevertheless produce every detail of their world with ever-increasing power. They thus also find themselves increasingly separated from that world. The closer their life comes to being their own creation, the more they are excluded from that life.”

Guy Debord Quote: “The present phase of total occupation of social life by the accumulated results of the economy leads to a generalized sliding of having into appearing, from which all actual “having” must draw its immediate prestige and its ultimate function.”

64. “The present phase of total occupation of social life by the accumulated results of the economy leads to a generalized sliding of having into appearing, from which all actual “having” must draw its immediate prestige and its ultimate function.”

Guy Debord Quote: “Of the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far the thing I have done best. Although I have read a lot, I have drunk more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk more than the majority of the people who drink.”

65. “Of the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far the thing I have done best. Although I have read a lot, I have drunk more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk more than the majority of the people who drink.”

Guy Debord Quote: “The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.”

66. “The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.”

Guy Debord Quote: “The spectacle does not realize philosophy, it philosophizes reality.”

67. “The spectacle does not realize philosophy, it philosophizes reality.”

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