Primarily, Debord longed to see the social order pass. He wanted a life without “dead time,” so he positioned himself as the enemy of the daily grind, a scourge to consensus. The “spectacle” was his name for the network of socio-cultural-economic forces with a vested interest in keeping people ensnared in a set of permissible routines: go to work, go home, watch TV, cheer on your favorite political team and, between those obligations, buy something. – At Hazlitt, Christopher Byrd on the life, […]
Morning Bites: New Lit Mags, Guy Debord, Atticus Lish, Nite Jewel Philosophy, Chess Hoaxes, And More
Maybe spend 13-minutes listening to people talk about Guy Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle” to start your morning? Former Vice editor Jesse Pearson is teaming up with Sam McPheeters to Exploded View, which Capital New York says will “fall somewhere in the center of the lit-mag spectrum.” Our own Tobias Carroll talks to Kris D’Agostino for L Magazine. Lincoln Michel at The Paris Review on a chess hoax. Atticus Lish will be reading from his book, Life Is with People, at KGB […]
Two young intellectual dudes talking about Guy Debord
Posted by Jason Diamond I take back every single time made fun of the New York Times in the past. I take it all back because of one single quote from the piece on The New Inquiry: “Tim Barker, a junior at Columbia, awkwardly admitted that he, too, had chosen a reading from Debord. (What are the odds?)” What are the odds that two dudes hanging out in a secret bookstore would both be looking to read a little Guy […]