Game Show Debord
This is pretty fantastic. A game show spectacle uses Guy Debord as content.
I would be interested to see how would Debord comment on this.
Just a little reminder: "The spectacle is not a collection of images, rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images." Society of Spectacle: Guy Debord. What kind of social relations are becoming visible through this image? What kind of social relations are made invisible by this image?
Image via Richard Barbrook via a spectacular medium
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11 years, 2 months ago
Dear Oliver,
This is a photomontage I made in 2008 for the publication of my book "KAFKA-COLA, without pity or added sugar" (Éditions Léo Scheer, 2008)
http://www.kafka-cola.com/
http://kafka-cola.blogspot.com/
It was credited and posted for the first time on the web in December 2008 on the blog of the éditions Leo Scheer then reposted a few days later on the blog of Pierre Assouline: "La république des livres".
I discovered that hundreds of Internet users have recently posted and re-posted this picture on Facebook, blogs and more.
Feel free to use this image but please don't forget to credit its author.
Kind Regards
Alessandro Mercuri
11 years, 2 months ago
Dear Alessandro, thank you! It is good to know where this great image is coming from.
I had a short chat with Richard Barbrook, who pointed out that Debord was actually a strategist not a philosopher. Interesting.
http://www.classwargames.net/
This might be interesting too:
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/98/wikiswarms.html
Thanks again and keep us posted on your future work.
Warmly, Oliver
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