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https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/tom-bunyard
https://fr.1lib.fr/book/5269688/f83b43
"In 1966, Strasbourg University found itself at the centre of a national scandal, as the entirety of its Student Union’s funds had been used to print 10,000 copies of the Situationist tract ‘On the Poverty of Student Life’. The text denounced the university as an institution, railed against the quiescence of students and their faux radicalism, and called for the total, revolutionary transformation of society as a whole." (p.1)
"Debord’s most famous work – 1967’s The Society of the Spectacle – is best understood as a book about history. Or, to put that more precisely: it is a book that describes a society that has become detached from its capacity to consciously shape and determine its own future.
Debord’s basic claim in The Society of the Spectacle is that modern society has become characterised by a passive, contemplative attitude towards the conduct and results of its own activity. This is because activity within this society is conducted in tacit accordance with the requirements of an effectively autonomous economy. However distinct and opposed they may seem, practically all areas of life, and all social and political institutions, now operate as elements of a single biopolitical order, which serves, in Debord’s view, to regulate and manage lived activity in a manner that allows the capitalist economy to continue operating.In his theoretical work, Debord describes this as a condition in which human subjects have become dominated by their own creations: they live within a social order that they have created, but which ultimately rules them. Society has thus become characterised by a state of separation from its own history. Life has become alienated from those who live it, and historical time now unfolds as an object of detached contemplation. Consequently, for Debord, we have become ‘spectators’ of our own lives: mere observers of a historical existence that we could, potentially, consciously shape and direct." (p.4)
-Tom Bunyard, Debord, Time and Spectacle: Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory, Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2018, 430 pages.
https://fr.1lib.fr/book/5269688/f83b43
"In 1966, Strasbourg University found itself at the centre of a national scandal, as the entirety of its Student Union’s funds had been used to print 10,000 copies of the Situationist tract ‘On the Poverty of Student Life’. The text denounced the university as an institution, railed against the quiescence of students and their faux radicalism, and called for the total, revolutionary transformation of society as a whole." (p.1)
"Debord’s most famous work – 1967’s The Society of the Spectacle – is best understood as a book about history. Or, to put that more precisely: it is a book that describes a society that has become detached from its capacity to consciously shape and determine its own future.
Debord’s basic claim in The Society of the Spectacle is that modern society has become characterised by a passive, contemplative attitude towards the conduct and results of its own activity. This is because activity within this society is conducted in tacit accordance with the requirements of an effectively autonomous economy. However distinct and opposed they may seem, practically all areas of life, and all social and political institutions, now operate as elements of a single biopolitical order, which serves, in Debord’s view, to regulate and manage lived activity in a manner that allows the capitalist economy to continue operating.In his theoretical work, Debord describes this as a condition in which human subjects have become dominated by their own creations: they live within a social order that they have created, but which ultimately rules them. Society has thus become characterised by a state of separation from its own history. Life has become alienated from those who live it, and historical time now unfolds as an object of detached contemplation. Consequently, for Debord, we have become ‘spectators’ of our own lives: mere observers of a historical existence that we could, potentially, consciously shape and direct." (p.4)
-Tom Bunyard, Debord, Time and Spectacle: Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory, Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2018, 430 pages.
