Episode #171 ... Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
Today we talk about a famous call to action by the philosopher Guy Debord.
Episode 39: On The Society of the Spectacle
In this episode we discuss Guy Debord’s most famous work, The Society of the Spectacle.
Guy Debord was born in Paris in 1931. He was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, and founding member of the Situationist International, who was especially concerned by the image-saturated consum…
Psychogeography of the Dead: the Phantoms of Père Lachaise
Beneath the romantic avenues of the world’s most famous necropolis lies a history of decay, ritual and spectacle. In this episode, we step away from the tourist maps and navigate Père Lachaise Cemetery by means of Situationist psychogeography.
We trace the origins of the cemetery to the 18th-centur…
ACFM Microdose: Reading The Society of the Spectacle
Following their recent Trip episode on Situationism, the gang offer a close reading of The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, first published in France in 1967. Nadia, Jem and Keir explore the layered references and subversions throughout Debord’s extremely quotable aphorisms, focusing on the …
ACFM Microdose: Reading The Society of the Spectacle
Following their recent Trip episode on Situationism, the gang offer a close reading of The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, first published in France in 1967. Nadia, Jem and Keir explore the layered references and subversions throughout Debord’s extremely quotable aphorisms, focusing on the …
The Reign of Quantity
The topic today touches the absolute core of our modern crisis: "The Reign of Quantity." Taking our title and inspiration from the seminal work (The Reign of Quantity – 1945) by the philosopher René Guénon, we are exploring how the contemporary world has become entirely obsessed with measurement, m…
6.7 Is the Flâneur Dead? Psychogeography and the Art of Wandering
Is the flâneur dead—or has it simply evolved?
In Part Two of this exploration into one of Paris's most fascinating cultural figures, I follow the flâneur from the boulevards of nineteenth-century Paris into the modern world of psychogeography, street photography, digital wandering and slow travel.
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Untimely Reflections #48: Neema Parvini (Academic Agent) - Disenchanting Politics
Neema Parvini is well known on Youtube for his channel, Academic Agent, and for his para-academic work at the Academic Agency. He discusses a broad range of topics in political philosophy, and does not shy away from any topic, from elite theory to Marxism, from Julius Evola to Guy Debord. We discus…
184: The Economy of Murder
Movie Meltdown - Episode 184 This week we are “live” at Fright Night Film Fest / FandomFest (and Christine's bedroom), as we sit down with actress, writer, director Christine Elise McCarthy and talk about her career and her short film Bathing and the Single Girl. She has an amazing list of credits,…
Ninety-Nine Novels: Room at the Top by John Braine
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burges…
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