In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.
Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.
None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. – The Society of The Spectacle.
In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.
The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.
The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it.
Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state’s monopoly of armed violence.
The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.
I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.