========================================================= | Guy Debord | | 1931 - 1994 | | | | essayist, filmmaker, | | co-founder of the Situationist International | ========================================================= "The whole life of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.*" * _The Society of the Spectacle_, Guy Debord, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith,1994: New York, Zone Books. Distributed by The MIT Press, Cambridge, USA, and London, UK. PARIS (AP) --Guy Debord, an avant-garde essayist who influenced the upheavals of French society in the late 1960s, has committed suicide. He was 62. Town officials in the village of Champot where Debord lived announced an investigation Thursday into the suicide. No details about how Debord took his life Wednesday were disclosed. Little-known outside France, Debord denounced what he called "the show-biz society" and declared that performing arts should be based on powerful emotions, passions and sexual desire. His ideas were influential among theoreticians and essayists who achieved prominence in the May 1968 student-led cultural revolt that shook French society. ===================================================================== Jeremy Butler [log in to unmask] SCREEN-L Coordinator [log in to unmask] Telecommunication & Film Dept. * University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa =====================================================================