To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection
Raoul VaneigemThe history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.
Raoul VaneigemEach component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.
Raoul VaneigemPurchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When heโs not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, heโs being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.
Raoul Vaneigem