With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.
Guy DebordRevolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.
Guy DebordThe spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
Guy DebordThe more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacleโs estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individualโs gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.
Guy Debord