Guy Debord
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Guy Louis Debord (28 December 1931, Paris – 30 November 1994, Bellevue-la-Montagne, Haute-Loire) was a French writer, theoretician, filmmaker, poet and revolutionary. He was one of the founders of Lettrist International from 1952 to 1957, then of the Situationist International from 1957 to 1972, of which he edited the French magazine. He is the author of Society of the Spectacle.
Films
- Critique de la séparation, 1961.
- Hurlements en faveur de Sade, 1952.
- In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni, 1978.
- Refutation of All the Judgements, Pro or Con, Thus Far Rendered on the Film “The Society of the Spectacle”, 1975.
- Society of the Spectacle, Part 1, 1973.
- Society of the Spectacle, Part 2, 1973.
Publications
- with Asger Jorn, Fin de Copenhague, 1957.
- with Asger Jorn, Mémoires, 1958.
- editor, Internationale situationniste. Bulletin central éd. par les sections de l'Internationale situationniste, 12 numbers, Paris, Jun 1958-Sep 1969, HTML. (French)
- Internationale Situationniste. Réédition d’articles (Supplement a 4 Millions de Jeunes Travailleurs), Paris: Les Amis de 4 millions de jeunes travailleurs, [1970], 44 pp.
- Internacional Situacionista, 1: La realización del arte, numbers 1-6, trans. Luis Navarro, 1999. (Spanish)
- La Société du Spectacle, Paris: Buchet-Chastel, 1967; 2010. (French)
- Society of the Spectacle, trans. Fredy Perlman and Jon Supak, 1970. (English)
- Die Gesellschaft des Spektakels, 1978; 1996. (German)
- La societa dello spettacolo, 1979. (Italian)
- Society of the Spectacle, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, 1995. (English)
- Gösteri Toplumu. ve Yorumlar, trans. Ayşen Ekmekçi and Okşan Taşkent, 1996. (Turkish)
- A sociedade do espetaculo, 1997. (Portuguese)
- Society of the Spectacle, trans. Ken Knabb, 2002; 2005.
- La sociedad del espectacul, 2002. (Spanish)
- Društvo spektakla, trans. Aleksa Golijanin, anarhija/blok 45, 2003; Anarhistička biblioteka, 2012. (Serbian)
- De spektakelmaatschappij, 2005. (Dutch)
- Spektákulum társadalma, 2006. (Hungarian)
- Społeczeństwo spektaklu oraz Rozważania o społeczeństwie spektaklu, 2006. (Polish)
- Společnost spektáklu, 2007. (Czech)
- Societatea spectacolului, trans. Cristina Savoiu, Bucharest: RAO, 2011. (Romanian)
- Η Κοινωνία του Θεάματος. (Greek)
Sound recordings
Literature
- Cécile Guilbert, Pour Guy Debord, Paris: Gallimard, 1996. (French)
- Michael Löwy, "Consume par le feu de la nuit (Le romantisme noir de Guy Debord)", Lignes 31, 1997, pp 161-169. (French)
- "Consumed by Night’s Fire: The Dark Romanticism of Guy Debord", trans. David Macey, Radical Philosophy 87, Jan-Feb 1998, pp 31-34.
- "Consumed by Night’s Fire: The Dark Romanticism of Guy Debord", trans. Marie Stuart, ch 9 in Löwy, Morning Star: Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism, Utopia, University of Texas Press, 2009, pp 97-104. (English)
- Jean-Marie Apostolidès, Les tombeaux de Guy Debord, précédé de Portrait de Guy-Ernest en jeune libertin, Paris: Exils, 1999, 161 pp. Biography. (French)
- The Tombs of Guy Debord, trans. Laure Katsaros and Rene Kooiker, Massachusetts Review, 2018. [1] (English)
- Anselm Jappe, L'avant-garde inacceptable: réflexions sur Guy Debord, Paris: Scheer, 2004, 120 pp. (French)
- Guy Debord. Un art de la guerre, eds. Laurence Le Bras and Emmanuel Guy, Paris: BnF, 2013, 224 pp. Catalogue. [2] (French)
- Jason E. Smith, "Guy Debord, Filmmaker", Grey Room 52, Summer 2013, pp 62-81. (English)
- Tom Bunyard, Debord, Time and Spectacle: Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. 430 pp. Review: Russell (Radical Phil). (English)
- Scott Mackenzie, The Cinema, too, Must be Destroyed: The Films of Guy Debord, Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming. (English)
Exhibitions
- Guy Debord. Un art de la guerre / An Art of War, BnF, Paris, 2013. Press kit.
