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“No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.”

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Guy Debord

Guy Debord was a French writer, filmmaker, and philosopher, born on December 28, 1931, and died on November 30, 1994. He was a founding member of the International Situationist Movement and is known for his critical analysis of consumerism, mass culture, and urban life. more

“Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.”

States Natural Violence Army Police Response Abundance Commodity Monopoly Detachment Unnatural Inhuman Looting

Book:Situationism: A Compendium

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.”

Technology Progress Ships Planes Carrie Negativity Crash Electricity Shipwreck Plane Crashes

Book:Politics of the Very Worst

Source: Politics of the Very Worst

“There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.”

Dream Eye Left Blind Spots Visible Blind Spots

Author:Paul Virilio

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