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Debord, Guy (1931-1994)

A French Cinematographer and writer. He founded Situationist International in 1958, a movement that sought to overtake art so that it would become a form of communication, with the participation of everyone, and that it would integrate poetry into daily life transformed into a game of events. His most famous work remains The society of the spectacle, which appeared in 1967. In 1965, Guy Debord patented his war game of which he said “It is perhaps the only one of [his] works which will be acknowledged to have some value”.


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