Guy Debord

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{{Infobox Philosopher|region = Western Philosophy|color = #B0C4DE|image_name = Debord.gif|thumb|260px|name = Guy Ernest Debord|birth = [December 28, 1931 Paris, [1994 Champot, Haute-Loire|main_interests = [Social theory, Reification, Commodity fetishism, [Detournement, [Georg Lukács, Cornelius Castoriadis, Dadaism, Surrealism, [Jean Baudrillard-->Guy Ernest Debord (born December 28, 1931 in Paris; died November 30, 1994 in Champot, Haute-Loire) was a writer, filmmaker, Hypergraphics and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International (SI). He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.

Life Guy Debord was born in Paris, France. His father died early, and he was raised by his grandmother in a series of Mediterranean towns. He was a headstrong youth, and after graduating high school he dropped out of the University of Paris where he had been studying law. He became a revolutionary poet, writer and film-maker founding the Lettrist International schism with Gil J. Wolman. In the 1960s he led the Situationist International group, which influenced the Paris uprising of May 1968. His book Society of the Spectacle (1967) was a major catalyst for the uprising . In the 1970s Debord disbanded the Situationist movement, and resumed filmmaking with financial backing from the movie mogul and publisher Gerard Lebovici. His two best films date from this period: a film version of The Society of the Spectacle (film) (1973 in film) and the autobiographical "In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni" (1981). After the dissolution of the Situationist International, Debord spent his time reading, and occasionally writing, in relative isolation, although he continued to correspond on political and other issues, notably with Lebovici and the Italian situationist Gianfranco Sanguinetti. His lifelong steady alcohol consumption began to take a toll on his health. Apparently to end the suffering from a form of neuritis brought on by his excessive drinking, he committed suicide, shooting himself in the heart at his cottage in Champot on November 30, 1994.

Works Guy Debord's best known works are his theoretical books, Society of the Spectacle and Comments on the Society of the Spectacle. In addition to these he wrote a number of autobiographical books including "Mémoires", "Panégyrique", "Cette Mauvaise Réputation..." and "Considérations sur l'assassinat de Gérard Lebovici". He was also the author of numerous short pieces, sometimes anonymous, for the journals "Potlatch", "Les Lèvres Nues," "Les Chats Sont Verts," and "Internationale Situationniste".

In broad terms, Debord's theories attempted to account for the spiritually debilitating modernisation of both the private and public spheres of everyday life by economic forces during the post-World War II modernisation of Europe. He rejected as the twin faces of the same problem both capitalism of the West and the statism of the Eastern bloc. Marx's theory of alienation, Debord postulated, could be accounted for by the invasive forces of the 'spectacle' - "a social relation between people that is mediated by images". Debord's analysis developed the notions of "reification (Marxism)" and commodity fetishism pioneered by Karl Marx and Georg Lukács. This analysis probed the historical, economic and psychological roots of 'the media'. Central to this school of thought was the claim that alienation is more than an emotive description or an aspect of individual psychology: rather, it is a consequence of the mercantile form of social organization which has reached its climax in capitalism.

The Situationist International, a political/artistic movement organized by Debord and his colleagues and represented by a journal of the same name, attempted to create a series of strategies for engaging in class struggle by reclaiming individual autonomy from the spectacle. These strategies, including "dérive" and "détournement", drew on the traditions of Dada and Surrealism.

The SI initially drew membership from the Lettrists – a post-Surrealist group of writers and poets dedicated to the destruction of bourgeois values by reducing the written word to Onomatopoeia syllables. However, the SI broke with the formal aims of the Lettrists and, after subsuming much of their membership, were fully established in their own right by 1959. After an intense period of theoretical analysis, publication and the expulsion of most of its few members, the SI dissolved itself in 1972.

Debord's first book, Memoires, was bound with a sandpaper cover so that it would destroy other books placed next to it.

Debord has been the subject of numerous biographies, works of fiction, artworks and songs, many of which are catalogued in the bibliography by Shigenobu Gonzalves, "Guy Debord ou la Beaute du Negatif".

Films

Hurlements en faveur de Sade 1952 in film

in favor of Sade

Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps, Paris, 1959 (short film, Dansk-Fransk Experimentalfilmskompagni).

the passage of some persons through a rather short period of time

Critique de la séparation, Paris, 1961 (short film, Dansk-Fransk Experimentalfilmskompagni).

of separation

La Société du spectacle, Paris, (1973 in film) (Simar Films)

The Society of the Spectacle (film)

Réfutation de tous les jugements, tant élogieux qu’hostiles, qui ont été jusqu’ici portés sur le film « La Société du spectacle », Paris, 1975 (short film, Simar Films).

of all judgements whether hostile or in praise which up to now were given on the film 'The Society of the Spectacle'

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (Simar Films) 1978

turn in circles in the night and are consumed by fireThis film, which was meant to be Debord's last one, is largely autobiographical but begins with a thorough and pitiless critique of the spectator.

Guy Debord, son art, son temps, 1995 (television film, by Guy Debord and Brigitte Cornand, Canal Plus)

Debord - his art and his time

Bibliography Works by Debord

Memoires, 1959 (co-authored by Asger Jorn), reprinted by Allia (2004), ISBN 2-84485-143-6.
La société du spectacle, 1967, numerous editions; in English: The Society of the Spectacle, Zone Books 1995, ISBN 0-942299-79-5.
La Véritable Scission dans L'Internationale, 1972 (co-authored by Gianfranco Sanguinetti); in English: The Real Split in the International, Pluto Press 2003, ISBN 0-7453-2128-3.
Œuvres cinématographiques complètes, 1978, new edition in 1994; in English: Complete Cinematic Works: Scripts, Stills, and Documents, AK Press 2003, ISBN 1-902593-73-1.
Considérations sur l'assassinat de Gérard Lebovici, 1985; in English: Considerations on the Assassination of Gérard Lebovici, TamTam 2001, ISBN 2-85184-156-4.
Commentaires sur la société du spectacle, 1988; in English: Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, Verso 1990, ISBN 0-86091-302-3.
Panégyrique volume 1, 1989; in English: Panegyric, Verso 2004, ISBN 1-85984-665-3; in Portuguese: "Panegírico" , ISBN 85-87193-77-5.
"The Proletariat as Subject and as Representation"