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On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (film soundtrack) Voice 1: This neighborhood was designed for the wretched dignity of the petty bourgeoisie, for respectable occupations and intellectual tourism. The sedentary population of the upper floors was sheltered from the influences of the street.
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Guy Debord’s cinematographic output starts in 1952 with Howlings for Sade, within the context of his youthful enthusiasm and Letterist cinema, and ends in 1978 with In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni, fruit of a profound personal melancholy. This makes the tone of these two films very different from On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rat...
Debord makes a simple but decisive observation: “Everything that was lived directly has move away into representation”. What are the consequences of this distancing? It is a distance that is not at all evident, as it constantly disguises itself, given that entertainment invites us to immerse ourselves, to identify with what it is projecting, but al...
As Debord states in Critique of Separation, the world of leaders is the same as that of the spectacle, as both put forward exemplary behaviour and find a hero under every stone. Stars replace the heroes of old. Debord continues the analysis put forward by Adorno and Horkheimer on the starlet in Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). According to the Fr...
The spectacle is the most effective way of managing public power, something that was described centuries ago by La Boétie in his Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1576) in which he explained how, over the course of history, tyrants have bought the public’s servitude through their control of public entertainment. The same old panem et circenses as a...
Debord’s relationship with time is philosophical and political, but also literary. From Howlings for Sade to In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni, his writing both sings about and bewails the passage of time. He understood that the energy of the situationists was inseparable from their youth, and that this was an important part of the revolutiona...
Without wanting to finish off by espousing solutionism, what is clear is that we need to turn to another politics of time, to other means, or as Debord would say “possess the community of dialogue and the game”. While in The Society of the Spectacle Debord uses détournementto demonstrate and, in a way, shatter the ideological foundations of the spe...
31 de ene. de 2019 · Through a close analysis of Debord's second film Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps (On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959), we argue that this cinematic reading of the drift retains and performs its politics through its capacity to disrupt capitalist ...
- David Archibald, Carl Lavery
- 2018
1 de mar. de 2009 · On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time: Directed by Guy Debord. With Jean Harnois, Guy Debord, Claude Brabant, Anna Karina. A semi-autobiographical Situationist short combines images of Paris, of director Debord and his friends, and of an advertisement for soap.
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20 de ene. de 2024 · The conversation’s title, On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time, was a nod to Guy Debord’s 1959 semi-autobiographical Situationist film of the same name as well as Kelly's exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth in London (2014).
11 years ago. 1000littlehammers. Guy Debord, 1959. The spoken commentary includes a large portion of detourned phrases, drawn indiscriminately from classic thinkers, a science-fiction novel, and the worst pop sociologists.
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As many of you will probably recognize, the words reconfigure the title of a short film by Guy Debord from 1959 – on the passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time. Thirty ea s late De o d s title as edeplo ed the u ato s of a i te atio al e hi itio documenting the history of the Situationist International.
