/lit/ - Literature

Deleuze
Foucault
Debord
Iain Sinclair
Chomsky

and it's tragic that everyone on that list is old or dead. where are the firebrands of this generation? On fucking facebook or drinking cheeky vimtos or planning a fucking riot on twitter to get new shoes, that's fucking where.

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>>1906494

Debord's argument is that society became the society of the spectacle with the rise of capitalism, and that spectacle effectively props up and facilitates capitalist discourse. The srgument of situationalism is that we can escape the spectacle, and the rest of the movement is bitching about the best way to aceive this - detournment, pranks, derive, anything which forces people to drop their habitual action (or formulate a new praxis if you'd rather), and perceive the world beyond the spectacle, even if that only means perceiving that the spectacle exists.

There are two sort of people, those who get the joke, and those who don't. If you don't know there's a joke, you're in the second group.