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Author: [log in to unmask] (Allan Siegel)
Date: 12/15/94 8:29 PM
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>Author: Gloria Monti
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>> Guy Debord was 37 during the French uprising of 1968, or the Chicago
>> Democratic Convention, or the Chinese Cultural Revolution or lots of other
>> moments in a year when a popular motto was,
>> "Don't trust anyone over thirty!"
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> I was thinking about this just the other day, wile reading a piece
>on the anniversary of the Berkeley uprising. How can one still believe
>the dictum, once they *are* over thirty?
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>> > So why suicide at 62, was he
>ill? > Was he trying to push the greatness that comes at the end of life?
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> Why Christian Metz? Why Claire Johnston? Why do these great film
>theorists take their lives?
To follow on Gloria Monti's comments:
Guy Debord was one of the true visionaries of the 60's. The conceptual
language of the situationists and their description of a malignant
transnational reality appeared in sharp contrast with the hackneyed rhetoric
and analyses of old-guard leftists (in Europe and the United States). He
understood the moment and envisioned the future. There was (and still is) a
frightening delirium to the world he amagined AND ALSO MUCH BEAUTY. Contained
within his life was a fragile, delicate balance.
Allan Siegel
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