At the Verge of #Utopia // Defying Boundaries

April 17, 2015 by bg-martin

At the Verge of #Utopia // Defying Boundaries In 1961 Henri Lefebvre published a short essay defending the concept of what he called “experimental utopia,” which he defined as “imaginary variations on themes and exigencies defined by the real understood in the broadest sense: by the problems posed by reality and by the virtualities held within it.” It was the exploration of human possibilities, with the help of the image and the imagination, accompanied by a ceaseless criticism and a […]

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Society of the Spectacle | Guy Debord

September 15, 2012 by bg-martin

‘One should bear in mind when reading this book that it was written with the deliberate intention of doing harm to spectacular society’. — Guy Debord. Society of the Spectacle Guy Debord | 1967 Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture. At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in […]

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