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The Death of a Situationist

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July/August 1995
By Joshua Glenn, Utne Reader 
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But, as Debord wrote toward the end, in a world unified by modern communications technology one cannot go into exile. In the early part of this decade, he allowed his books to be republished (they met -- alas -- with great success), and in 1994, according to Anarchy, he even agreed to participate in a documentary film on his life and times. Had the spectacle finally caught up to him? Lingua Franca thinks so, speculating that Debord may have been driven to suicide "from the contemptuous realization that [his work] was already a classic." Maybe so, but it's more likely that Debord was just a bitter man who couldn't stand the world he so accurately described or the fact that his theories were in the end of interest only to hipster intellectuals and had no effect whatsoever on the ever-increasing power of the society of the spectacle.

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