“People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.” PeopleBelieveBeliefBasesSlipsSlippingBewitchedSlipping Away Book:Situationism: A Compendium Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.” PeopleLoveUnderstandingClassStrugglePositiveRevolutionMouthsEverydayEveryday LifeRebelliousCorpsesRefusalConstraintsSubversiveReferringClass StruggleConstrain Book:Situationism: A Compendium Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.” PeopleLoveStreetsWeaponsSingingDancingDrinkingArguingMaking LoveInventingSlaughterhouses Book:Situationism: A Compendium Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are.” PeopleMeanUseCultureImaginationComfortImportanceTiredLeisureTire Book:Situationism: A Compendium Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.” PeopleGivingRealCausesRolesBreakFoolGiving UpAppearanceRichesOppressionPassagesSeductionConstraintsMediationAuthentic Life Book:Situationism: A Compendium Source: Situationism: A Compendium