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Quotation by Guy Debord
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Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988, trans. 1990)"Formula for a New City" The Incomplete Works of the Situationist International, ed. Christopher Gray (1974)Internationale Situationist (no. 1, Paris, June 1958)Panegyric (1989)"The Bad Old Days Will End" The Incomplete Works of the Situationist International (Nov. 1963), ed. Christopher Gray (1974)
The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.
Guy Debord (b. 1931), French Situationist philosopher. Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, ch. 12 (1988, trans. 1990).
Of Marshall McLuhan's notion of the "global village."
Of Marshall McLuhan's notion of the "global village."
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