Apologies for cross-listing but I think the members of all three of these
lists will want to see the item below.
George Robinson
Cry later, but for now let's enjoy the laughter.
--Tupac Shakur, "God Bless the Dead"
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Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:31 PM
Subject: GUY DEBORD: Situationist Film Soundtracks
> New translations of the soundtracks from all six of Guy Debord's films are
> now online at http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films .
>
> Some excerpts:
>
> "The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation
> between people that is mediated by images. . . . Spectators are linked
> solely by their one-way relationship to the very center that keeps them
> isolated from each other."
>
> "The function of the cinema, whether dramatic or documentary, is to
present
> a false and isolated coherence as a substitute for a communication and
> activity that are absent."
>
> "Society broadcasts to itself its own image of its own history, a history
> reduced to a superficial and static pageant of its rulers -- the persons
who
> embody the apparent inevitability of whatever happens."
>
> "This dominant equilibrium is brought back into question each time unknown
> people try to live differently. But it was always far away. We learn of it
> through the papers and newscasts. We remain outside it, relating to it as
> just another spectacle. We are separated from it by our own
> nonintervention."
>
> "Others unthinkingly followed the paths learned once and for all, to their
> work and their home, to their predictable future. For them, duty had
already
> become a habit, and habit a duty. They did not see the deficiency of their
> city. They thought the deficiency of their life was natural. We wanted to
> break out of this conditioning, in search of different uses of the urban
> landscape, in search of new passions."
>
> "Thus was mapped out a program calculated to undermine the credibility of
> the entire organization of social life. Classes and specializations, work
> and entertainment, commodities and urbanism, ideology and the state -- we
> showed that it all needed to be scrapped. . . . These perspectives have
now
> been widely adopted, and people everywhere are fighting for or against
them.
> But back then they would certainly have seemed delirious, if the behavior
of
> modern capitalism had not been even more delirious."
>
> "The only interesting venture is the liberation of everyday life, not only
> in a historical perspective, but for us, right now. This project implies
the
> withering away of all the alienated forms of communication. The cinema,
too,
> must be destroyed."
>
>
>
>
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>
> The Bureau of Public Secrets website features numerous texts by and about
> Guy Debord and the Situationist International.
>
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> "Making petrified conditions dance by singing them their own tune."
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