Guy Debord was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker and critic of work who helped found the Letterist International and later the Situationist International, after briefly belonging to the group Socialisme ou Barbarie. He is best known for his 1967 work The Society of the Spectacle, which argued that modern capitalist life had been reorganized around passive consumption of mediated images rather than lived, direct experience. His theoretical writing and filmmaking together shaped the Situationist critique of everyday life under advanced capitalism. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Guy-Ernest Debord ( də-BOR; French: [gi dəbɔʁ]; 28 December 1931-30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International.
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