The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy
Guy Debord on LA riots

https://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/decline.html

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"The strength and the weakness of the real anarchist struggle resides in its viewing the goal of proletarian revolution as immediately present ..."

- Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

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Today in Labor History December 10, 1896: Alfred Jarry's play, Ubu Roi, premiered in Paris. At the end of the performance, a riot broke out. Many in the audience were confused and outraged by the obscenity and disrespect they felt in the performance. Others, like W. B. Yeats, thought it was revolutionary. Jarry’s work was a precursor to Dada, Surrealism and the Theatre of the Absurd. Ubu Roi is a parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth and parts of Hamlet and King Lear. However, having recently reread the play, I found an uncanny resemblance between Pere Ubu and Donald Trump.

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"Guy Debord passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity". "

The spectacle is not a collection of images, rather, it is a social relation among people, mediated by images."

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