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Guy Debord
(1931 - 1994)
French theorist and author
French theorist and author
French Marxist theorist, filmmaker, and founder of the Situationist International.
Guy Debord was born in 1931 in Paris, France.
After World War II, he became a prominent figure in avant-garde art and political theory.
In 1957, he co-founded the Situationist International, advocating revolutionary cultural critique.
His 1967 book "The Society of the Spectacle" analyzed the impact of mass media and consumer culture.
Debord directed experimental films that visualized his theories through radical montage techniques.
His ideas influenced the protests of May 1968 and continue to shape critical theory today.
1994
Guy Debord