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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 10:18:59 -0800
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 12/28 GUY DEBORD


I am waiting for my case to come up
          & I am waiting
        for a rebirth of wonder
      & I am waiting for someone
       to really discover America

                 — Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
                A Coney Island of the Mind

Daily Bleed, web page updated & in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1228.htm

excerpts,

DECEMBER 28 -- GUY DEBORD
Maitre penseur of the Situationist International,
writer, filmmaker, critic of Spectacular,
Too-Late Capitalism.

Belgium: HOLY INNOCENTS' DAY.
Children play all sorts of tricks on their elders,
including stealing their keys & locking them up
(sounds like most days).

THROW AWAY YOUR SUBLIMINAL MOTIVATION
TAPES TODAY DAY.

EAT VEGETARIAN DAY.

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE DAY.

As most of you know, it's still:
NATIONAL INDIGESTION SEASON.


1822 -- Stendhal has his "day of genius," conceiving the
idea of writing his philosophical treatise on love:
De l'Amour.
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0123b.htm#1783

1863 -- Russia: Nihilists annihilate Chief of Police.

1869 -- US: Knights of Labor hold their first
meeting, Philadelphia.

1879 -- US: Long-time Seattle, Washington, labor
leader Jimmy Duncan lives.

1883 -- Saint John Ervine, British playwright/novelist,
lives, Belfast, Ireland. One of the first to write drama in
the style of local realism fostered by the Irish literary
renaissance.

1903 -- John Von Neumann mathematician/astronomer
(Bocher Award 1938), lives.
http://www.dccomics.com/mad/
http://www.wiw.org/~drz/tom.lehrer/

1905 -- Earl "Fatha" Hines, famed jazz pianist, lives.

1914 -- Leon Bonneff dies, Gray (Haute-Saône), France.
Proletarian writer. With his brother Maurice brother,
wrote La vie tragique des travailleurs (1908), Les
métiers qui tuent (1905), Aubervilliers, etc. They
publish their investigations of the conditions of the
workers & their lives in various newspapers of the
left, such as "Guerre Sociale" & "l'Humanité".

1917 -- In a hoax article H. L. Mencken celebrates the
anniversary of the advent of the bathtub in America.

1928 -- Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the
Blues," made.
http://www.blueflamecafe.com/default.htm

1931 . . .

                            Guy Debord lives, Paris, France.


       "The world at once present & absent which the
       spectacle makes visible is the world of the
       commodity dominating all that is lived. The world
       of the commodity is thus shown for what it is,
       because its movement is identical to the
       estrangement of men among themselves & in
       relation to their global product."

       — Guy Debord, La société du spectacle


       "Je voulais parler la belle langue de mon siècle."

            http://www.slip.net/~knabb/
            http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord/
            http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/debord.html
            http://www.nothingness.org/SI/simisc/marshallobit.html

1932 -- Novelist Manuel Puig (Eternal Curse on the
Reader of These Pages; Kiss of the Spider Woman)
lives, Argentine Pampas.

1936 -- US: Workers begin sit-down strike against
General Motors at Fisher Body plant in Cleveland, Ohio.

1937 -- Maurice Ravel lives. Composer & freelance musician.

             "I've so much music in my head."

      --- Maurice Ravel, shortly before his death.

1945 -- American novelist Theodore Dreiser
(Sister Carrie (1900), An American Tragedy (1925))
dies, Los Angeles.

1945 -- US: Congress officially recognizes
"The Pledge of Allegiance".

1950 -- Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel,
into South Korea. US Army gets m.a.s.h.e.d.

1968 -- Anti-draft conference launches
"Don't Register" campaign, Australia.

1971 -- Vietnam veteran antiwar protesters peacefully
end their occupation of the Statue of Liberty.

"The statue of Liberty welcomes innumerable
pilgrims...while it is announced that the center of the
world, which took millennia to shift from the
Euphrates to the Thames, is now on the Hudson River.

In full imperial euphoria the United States
celebrates...but novelist Mark Twain, the old spoilsport,
proposes changing the national flag: the white stripes
should be black, he says, & the stars should be skulls
& crossbones."

1973 -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes Gulag
Archipelago.

        "One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world."


1984 -- Straw That Broke...?: Sam Peckinpah, film
director, rides the high country, of cardiac arrest at 59.



The spectacle is ideology par excellence, because it
exposes & manifests in its fullness the essence of all
ideological systems: the impoverishment, servitude &
negation of real life. The spectacle is materially "the
expression of the separation & estrangement between
man & man."

Through the "new power of fraud," concentrated at the
base of the spectacle in this production, "the new
domain of alien beings to whom man is subservient ...
grows coextensively with the mass of objects." It is the
highest stage of an expansion which has turned need
against life. "The need for money is thus the real need
produced by political economy, & the only need it
produces" (Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts).

The spectacle extends to all social life the principle
which Hegel (in the Realphilosophie of Jena) conceives
as the principle of money: it is "the life of what is
dead, moving within itself."

            — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord/SOTS/sotscontents.html


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