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Philosophy is at once the power of alienated thought and the thought of alienated power, and as such it has never been able to emancipate itself from theology.

— Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle (1967)

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Panegyric (1989)

The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.

Society of the Spectacle (1967)

The spectacle manifests itself as an enormous positivity, out of reach and beyond dispute. All it says is: "Everything that appears is good; whatever is good will appear."

Society of the Spectacle (1967)

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

The Incomplete Works of the Situationist International (1963)

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption, byproduct of the circulation of commodities, is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

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