So I've read the book and i get it for the most part but there are 2 parts that confuse me. Firstly I got kinda lost during the chapter about culture and modern art can someone dumb that down for me? Secondly what exactly are the solutions that are proposed in this book
> Secondly what exactly are the solutions that are proposed in this book
You tell us, haven't you read the damn book after all?
He criticizes neoliberalism capitalism stalinism fascism' orthodox marxism trocskysm anarchism in all forms leninism even unions. And I can't disagree with him on the critiques but the solutions were far and few between and the ones he does give like worker coops could easily fall into the same traps as the unions. I guess his take near the end about schizophremia and ideologies is a very fair point mow that I've actually sat and thought about it I made this post as soon as I read the book
This one is just some outdated 60's communist drivel, read his "comments on the society of the spectacle".
Thanks I'll read that next. Also is the movie worth checking out?
>comments on the society of the spectacle
comments are indeed way better, and easier to read. Society of Spectacle is written in such a pseud intellectual way, it's so annoying. Also, since it's a marxist claiming for revolution text, it would make more sense to be written in a easy way, so workers could read and understand.
>Searle translates Foucault’s admission to him this way: “In France, you gotta have ten percent incomprehensible, otherwise people won’t think it’s deep–they won’t think you’re a profound thinker.”
>claiming for revolution
wasnt the point that successful revolutionaries dissolve into the spectacle?
You are correct but I don't really agree. Tbh Camus, Foscault abd Sartre are p easy to understand at least front what I've read from them. French cinena at the time tho now that was pure pseud shit but I can't help but love it
filtered like a bird against the window.
There are none, he was a suicidal hylic
Did the transgender community just discover the word hylic?
The hylic is immunized against all dangers: One may call him a normie, commoner, provincial, materialist, pagan, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a hylic and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: "I’ve been found out"
Try to get some more meme speak in there next time and maybe it will be funny
Shit. I thought it was just me. I was about to go button hole some kid to tell me what the frick that guy just said.
You unread fools.
is a famous, hundred year old quote, except for one word. Go read a book.
In this case, Mein Kampf.
He meant a goatse butthole. There are limits to degeneracy after all.
I’m a biological dude with a goatee butthole
It's pretty funny how he felt the need to clarify that he's a man with a goatee and not, in fact, trans.
>hylic
> The basest type of man
Yeah im thinking hes based
Debord wasn’t a hylic, he actually had many of the same correct intuitions about modern society as Lasch, Ellul, Guenon, Evola, but he framed them in the Marxist thought that he was immersed in.
i find weird the way this guy writes. writing a whole book in topics is kinda odd.
It was def written is a pseud ga way but I found it charming. Idk why I find french postmodernism charming in general even tho it's either pseud shit, degen shit or so simple anyone could have written it but maybe that's what makes it more human for a lack of a better term in a way. At least to me
First half is trash, it's the sections on Art that are interesting. Read Ellul for proper exposition. Also that translation is trash; find the one online sanctioned by the author himself.
Debord and the situationists in general don't translate well at all.