A Sick Planet - Guy Debord
Of the three independent texts by Guy Debord included here, two were first published as pamphlets, while the third was written in 1971 for inclusion in a projected thirteenth issue of the Situationist International's journal which never appeared because of the group's dissolution. Despite the seeming diversity of the subjects discussed—the Watts riots in ‘The Decline and Fall of the “Spectacular” Commodity-Economy’ (1965); the disintegration of bureaucratic power in ‘The Explosion Point of Ideology in China’ (1967); pollution and its representation in ‘A Sick Planet’ (1971)—all three texts deal with the varied forms of the ‘spectacle’ and its repercussions. And despite the dates of their composition, all three remain startlingly relevant today. —Alice Debord, 2004
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