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simar films presents
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the society of the spectacle
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a film written and directed
by guy debord...
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based on his book
"the society of the spectacle"
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in the detournment of
preexisting films,
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use was made
of the works of:
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as well as the works of a certain
number of bureaucratic filmmakers
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of the so-called
socialist countries.
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the commentary of the
present film, completed....
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October 1974, consists
entirely of excerpts...
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from the first edition of "the
society of the spectacle" (1967)
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Since each particular
sentiment...
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is only a partial
aspect of life,
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and not the entirety
of life...
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life burns to pour out...
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through the diversity
of the sentiments,
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and thus rediscover itself
in the sum of diversity.
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In love, the separate
still exists,
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but not as separated:
as united,
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and the living reencounters
the living.
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THIS FILM IS DEDICATED
TO ALICE BECKER-HO.
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Al life in societies where modern
conditions of production reign...
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announces itself as an immense
accumulation of spectacles.
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All that was
directly lived...
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has moved away into
a representation.
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The images which have detached
themselves from each aspect of life,
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dissolve in a common flow.
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where the unity of this life
can no longer be established.
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Reality considered partially...
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deploys itself in its own
general unity...
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as a pseudo-world apart,
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an object only of
contemplation.
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The specialization of the images
of the world finds itself again,
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fulfilled,
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in the world of the image
made autonomous,
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where the liar has
lied to himself.
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The spectacle in general,
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as the concrete
inversion of life,
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is the autonomous movement
of the non-living.
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The spectacle presents itself at one
and the same time as society itself,
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as part of society,
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and as instrument of unification.
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As a part of society,
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it is the sector that concentrates all
looking and all consciousness.
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From the very fact that
this sector is separate,
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it is the place of the abused gaze
and of false consciousness,
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and the unification
it accomplishes...
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is nothing other than an
official language of...
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generalized separation.
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At the end of these deliberations,
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we have appreciated
what was...
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positive and also made plain
that much remains to be done.
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The spectacle is not a
collection of images,
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but a social relation
among persons,
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mediated by images.
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The spectacle, understood
in its totality,
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is both the result and the project
of the existing mode of production.
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It is not a supplement
to the real world,
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its superadded decoration.
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It is the heart of the unrealism
of the real society.
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In all its particular forms,
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information or propaganda,
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advertising or direct
consumption of entertainment,
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the spectacle constitutes...
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the present model of
socially dominant life.
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It is the omnipresent
affirmation of...
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the choice already
made in production,
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and its corollary consumption.
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Separation itself forms a part
of the unity of the world,
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in the global social praxis...
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that has split into reality
and into image.
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Social praxis,
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in the presence of which the
autonomous spectacle is set up,
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is also the real totality which
contains the spectacle.
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But the split in
this totality...
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mutilates it to the point of making
the spectacle appear as its goal.
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In the world- which is in reality
turned upside down- the true...
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is a moment of the false.
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Considered in its
own terms,
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the spectacle is the
affirmation of appearance...
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and the affirmation of all human
life, that is to say social life,
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as simple appearance.
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But the critique that attains
the truth of the spectacle...
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discovers it as the visible
negation of life;
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as a negation of life...
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become visible.
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The spectacle presents itself
as an enormous, indisputable...
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and inaccessible positivity.
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It says nothing more than:
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"what appears is good;
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what is good appears."
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The attitude that it requires
as its principle...
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is this passive acceptance...
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that it has in fact
already obtained...
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in its manner of appearing
without reply,
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in its monopoly over
appearance.
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The spectacle forces the
submission of living men...
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to the degree that the economy
has forced their total submission.
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It is no more than the economy
developing on its own behalf.
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It is the faithful reflection
of the production of things,
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and the unfaithful objectification
of the producers.
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Where the real world
changes into simple images,
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the simple images
become real beings,
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and the efficient motivations
of an hypnotic behavior.
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To the degree that necessity
is socially dreamed,
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the dream becomes necessary.
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The spectacle is the bad dream
of enchained modern society,
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which ultimately expresses
only its desire to sleep.
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The spectacle is the
guardian of this sleep.
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The fact that the practical
power of modern society...
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has broken off of
its own accord...
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and established an independent
realm in the spectacle...
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can only be explained
by this additional fact...
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that practical power
continued to lack cohesion,
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and had remained in
contradiction with itself.
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The oldest social specialization,
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the specialization of power,
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is at the root of
the spectacle.
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The spectacle is thus...
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a specialized activity which speaks
for the ensemble of the others.
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It is the diplomatic representation
of hierarchical society to itself,
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where every other form
of speech is banned.
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The most modern is here
the most archaic as well.
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The generalized split
of the spectacle...
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is inseparable from
the modern State,
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that is to say, from the general
form of the split in society,
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product of the division
of social labor...
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and agent of class domination.
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In the spectacle,
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one part of the world
represents itself to the world,
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and is superior to it.
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The spectacle is merely the common
language of this separation.
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What binds the spectators...
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is merely the irreversible relation
to the very center which...
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maintains their isolation.
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The spectacle reunites
the separated,
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but reunites it as separated.
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The worker does not
produce himself,
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it produces an independent
power.
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The success of this
production, its abundance,
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returns to the producer as an
abundance of dispossession.
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All time and space of his
world become strange to him...
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with the accumulation of
his alienated products.
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The very forces which
have escaped us...
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show themselves in
their full power.
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Man, separated from
his own production,
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produces ever more...
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powerfully the all the
details of his world,
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and thus finds himself ever
more separated from his world.
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The more his life is now
his own production,
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the more he is
separated from his life.
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The spectacle is capital...
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at such a degree of accumulation
that it becomes image.
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One might still recognize some
cinematographic value in this film,
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if this rhythm were to be maintained,
it will not be maintained.
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Critical theory...
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should communicate itself
in its own language.
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It is the language
of contradiction,
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which should be
dialectical in its form,
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as it is in its content.
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It is the critique of the totality,
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and historical critique.
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It is not a "degree
zero of writing",
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but its overturning.
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It is not a negation of style,
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but the style of negation.
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In its very style,
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the exposition of dialectical
theory is a scandal...
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and an abomination according to
the rules of the dominant language,
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and for the taste they have
educated because in the...
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positive use of
existing concepts,
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it includes both
the intelligence...
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of their rediscovered fluidity,
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and their necessary
destruction.
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The style which contains
its own critique...
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should express the domination
of present critique...
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over its entire past.
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Through it, the mode of exposition
of dialectical theory...
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attests to the negative
spirit which is in it.
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"Truth is not like the product
in which the trace of the tool...
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can no longer be found."
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This theoretical consciousness
of movement,
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in which the very trace of
movement should be present,
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manifests itself by the
overturning of established..
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relations between concepts,
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and by the detournement of all
the acquisitions of previous critique.
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Ideas improve.
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The meaning of words
participates in this.
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Plagiarism is necessary.
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Progress implies it.
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It clings to an
author's phrase,
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makes use of
his expressions,
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erases a false idea,
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replaces it with
the right idea.
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Detuornement is the
fluid language...
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of anti-ideology,
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It appears in
communication...
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that knows it cannot
pretend definitely...
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possess any
guaranty in itself.
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It is, at the
highest point,
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the language that no
previous and supra-critical...
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reference can confirm.
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On the contrary, it is
its own coherence,
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in itself and with the
practical facts,
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that can confirm the
old grain of truth...
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that it brings back.
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Detournement has based
its cause on nothing...
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exterior to its own truth
as present critique.
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What, in theoretical
formulation,
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presents itself as
openly detourned,
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in denying all durable
autonomy to the sphere...
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of the expressed
theoretical,
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by causing the
intervention there,
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by means of this violence,
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of the action that destroys and
carries off all the existing order,
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recalls that this existence
of the theoretical...
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is nothing in itself,
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and only come
to be known...
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through historical action,
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and the historical
correction which...
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is its true fidelity.
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What the spectacle has
taken from reality...
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must now be retaken
from the spectacle.
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The spectacular expropriators
must be expropriated in their turn.
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The world is already filmed.
It's now a matter of transforming it.
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It is a matter of
possessing in fact...
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the community of dialogue
and the play with time...
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which have been represented
by poetico-artistic work.
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When art, having
become independent,
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represents its world
with sparkling colors,
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a moment of life
has grown old,
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and it may never again
be rejuvenated...
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with sparkling colors.
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It may be evoked
only in memory.
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The greatness of art...
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begins to appear...
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only at the end of life.
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Having fun, Mr. Logan?
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I couldn't sleep.
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That stuff help any?
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Makes the night
go faster.
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What's keeping you awake?
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Dreams.
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Bad dreams.
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Yeah, I get'em
sometimes too.
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Here, this'll chase'em away.
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I tried that. Didn't
seem to help me any.
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How many men
have you forgotten?
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As many women as
you have remembered.
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Thus, after the direct
practice of art has ceased...
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to be what is most
eminent and this..
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predicate has devolved
to the theory as such,
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it now breaks off
from the latter,
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insofar as synthetic
post-theoretical practice...
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is constituted, which
has as its mission,
258
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first of all, to be the
foundation and truth of art,
259
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as well as of philosophy.
260
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August von Cieszkowski,
Prolegomena to Historiosophy
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Thought of the social
organization of appearance...
262
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is itself obscured...
263
00:16:13,209 --> 00:16:17,220
by the generalized sub-
communication that it defends.
264
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The specialists of power
of the spectacle,
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absolute power within
its system of...
266
00:16:23,828 --> 00:16:25,459
language without reply,
267
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are absolutely corrupted...
268
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by their experience
of contempt,
269
00:16:29,777 --> 00:16:31,958
and by the success
of that contempt.
270
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They find their contempt
again confirmed...
271
00:16:34,728 --> 00:16:37,413
by the knowledge of the
contemptible man...
272
00:16:37,563 --> 00:16:40,039
who the spectator
really is.
273
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In this essential movement
of the spectacle,
274
00:16:49,353 --> 00:16:51,449
which consists
of recapturing...
275
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within itself everything that
existed in human activity...
276
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in a fluid state,
277
00:16:56,127 --> 00:16:58,754
in order to possess it...
278
00:16:58,964 --> 00:17:00,519
in a coagulated state,
279
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as things which have
become the exclusive value,
280
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by their formulation in
negative of lived value,
281
00:17:07,303 --> 00:17:09,982
we recognize our
old enemy...
282
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who knows so well how
to appear at first glance...
283
00:17:13,366 --> 00:17:16,340
something trivial
and ,self-evident
284
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when it is, on the
contrary, so complex,
285
00:17:20,084 --> 00:17:24,239
and so full of metaphysical
subtleties, the commodity.
286
00:17:28,947 --> 00:17:32,118
This is the principle of
commodity fetishism,
287
00:17:32,384 --> 00:17:34,979
the domination of
society by...
288
00:17:35,088 --> 00:17:38,145
"intangible things as well
as by tangible things,"
289
00:17:38,329 --> 00:17:41,287
that reaches its absolute
fulfillment in the spectacle.
290
00:17:41,413 --> 00:17:44,161
where the tangible world
finds itself replaced...
291
00:17:44,328 --> 00:17:47,513
by a selection of images
which exists above it,
292
00:17:47,709 --> 00:17:50,398
and which at the same
time has made itself...
293
00:17:50,564 --> 00:17:53,091
recognized as the tangible
par excellence.
294
00:17:54,778 --> 00:17:57,540
The world at once
present and absent...
295
00:17:57,682 --> 00:17:59,661
that the spectacle
makes visible...
296
00:17:59,837 --> 00:18:01,735
is the world of
the commodity...
297
00:18:01,860 --> 00:18:04,372
dominating everything
that is lived.
298
00:18:04,639 --> 00:18:08,817
And the world of the commodity
is thus shown as it is,
299
00:18:08,916 --> 00:18:11,080
for its movement
is identical...
300
00:18:11,296 --> 00:18:13,174
to the distancing of men...
301
00:18:13,357 --> 00:18:16,796
from one another and from
their global production.
302
00:18:17,695 --> 00:18:19,692
The domination of commodity...
303
00:18:19,966 --> 00:18:23,584
was at first exercised in an
occult fashion over the economy,
304
00:18:23,694 --> 00:18:24,810
that itself,
305
00:18:24,926 --> 00:18:27,689
as the material base
of social life,
306
00:18:27,830 --> 00:18:30,676
remained unrecognized
and misunderstood,
307
00:18:30,859 --> 00:18:34,144
like the familiar which
remains nonetheless unknown.
308
00:18:34,570 --> 00:18:37,071
In a society where the
concrete commodity...
309
00:18:37,205 --> 00:18:39,781
remains rare or
in the minority,
310
00:18:39,964 --> 00:18:43,672
the apparent domination
of money presents itself...
311
00:18:43,805 --> 00:18:46,255
as the emissary
with full powers...
312
00:18:46,380 --> 00:18:49,043
who speaks in the name
of an unknown power.
313
00:18:49,367 --> 00:18:51,612
With the industrial
revolution,
314
00:18:51,788 --> 00:18:54,102
the division of labor
in manufacturing...
315
00:18:54,234 --> 00:18:57,230
and mass production
for the world market,
316
00:18:57,430 --> 00:18:59,977
the commodity effectively
appears...
317
00:19:00,126 --> 00:19:04,154
as a power that actually
comes to occupy social life.
318
00:19:04,444 --> 00:19:07,573
It is then that political
economy comes...
319
00:19:07,698 --> 00:19:11,732
to constitute the dominant science
and the science of domination.
320
00:19:15,738 --> 00:19:19,094
The spectacle is a
permanent opium war...
321
00:19:19,327 --> 00:19:23,360
to enforce the identification
of goods with commodities,
322
00:19:23,660 --> 00:19:25,215
and of satisfaction...
323
00:19:25,358 --> 00:19:28,853
with survival increasing
according to its own laws.
324
00:19:29,044 --> 00:19:32,496
But if consumable survival
is something which should...
325
00:19:32,729 --> 00:19:34,042
always increase,
326
00:19:34,191 --> 00:19:37,790
it's because it never ceases
to contain privation.
327
00:19:37,957 --> 00:19:41,260
If there is nothing beyond
increased survival,
328
00:19:41,467 --> 00:19:45,039
no point where
it ceases to grow,
329
00:19:45,245 --> 00:19:49,024
it's because it is not
itself beyond privation,
330
00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,869
but rather, it is
enriched privation.
331
00:19:55,224 --> 00:19:59,792
Exchange value could take form
only as the agent of use value,
332
00:19:59,913 --> 00:20:02,473
but its victory by means
of its own weapons...
333
00:20:02,572 --> 00:20:05,988
has created the conditions of
its autonomous domination.
334
00:20:06,154 --> 00:20:07,902
Mobilizing all
human practice...
335
00:20:08,102 --> 00:20:11,097
and seizing the monopoly
over satisfaction,
336
00:20:11,256 --> 00:20:13,949
it ends up directing
practice.
337
00:20:14,127 --> 00:20:15,741
The process of exchange...
338
00:20:15,891 --> 00:20:18,344
is identified with all
possible practice,
339
00:20:18,487 --> 00:20:20,782
and reduces it
to its mercy.
340
00:20:20,991 --> 00:20:25,003
Exchange value is the
condottiere of use value,
341
00:20:25,185 --> 00:20:28,728
that ends up waging the
war in its own interest.
342
00:20:30,536 --> 00:20:33,515
Use value, which was
implicitly comprised...
343
00:20:33,648 --> 00:20:35,211
by exchange value,
344
00:20:35,371 --> 00:20:38,666
should now be
explicitly proclaimed,
345
00:20:38,858 --> 00:20:41,562
in the inverted reality
of the spectacle,
346
00:20:41,712 --> 00:20:45,385
precisely because its
factual reality is eaten...
347
00:20:45,579 --> 00:20:48,777
away by the overdeveloped
commodity economy;
348
00:20:48,927 --> 00:20:51,546
and because a pseudo-
justification becomes...
349
00:20:51,713 --> 00:20:54,038
necessary for
false life.
350
00:21:04,445 --> 00:21:07,644
The concentrated result
of social labor,
351
00:21:07,767 --> 00:21:10,277
at the moment of
economic abundance,
352
00:21:10,497 --> 00:21:11,876
becomes apparent,
353
00:21:12,071 --> 00:21:14,859
and forces the submission
of all reality to appearance,
354
00:21:15,174 --> 00:21:17,552
which is now
its product.
355
00:21:19,183 --> 00:21:22,072
Capital is no longer
the invisible center...
356
00:21:22,221 --> 00:21:24,473
that directs the mode
of production:
357
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,988
its accumulation extends
it to the periphery...
358
00:21:28,180 --> 00:21:30,460
in the form of tangible
objects.
359
00:21:30,591 --> 00:21:34,645
The entire expanse of
society is its portrait.
360
00:21:40,374 --> 00:21:43,097
The spectacle, like the
modern society,
361
00:21:43,245 --> 00:21:45,672
is at once united
and divided.
362
00:21:46,001 --> 00:21:49,893
Like society, it builds its unity
on tearing things to pieces,
363
00:21:50,134 --> 00:21:51,694
But contradiction,
364
00:21:51,791 --> 00:21:53,826
when it emerges
in the spectacle,
365
00:21:53,923 --> 00:21:55,662
is in its turn
contradicted...
366
00:21:55,777 --> 00:21:58,171
by an inversion
of its meaning;
367
00:21:58,401 --> 00:22:01,665
so that the division
demonstrated is unitary,
368
00:22:01,837 --> 00:22:05,421
while the unity
demonstrated is divided.
369
00:22:09,260 --> 00:22:12,561
The struggle of powers,
which have been....
370
00:22:12,676 --> 00:22:15,574
set up for directing the same
socio-economic system,
371
00:22:15,730 --> 00:22:19,028
is deployed as official
contradiction,
372
00:22:19,216 --> 00:22:22,202
belonging in fact
to real unity,
373
00:22:22,349 --> 00:22:24,141
this latter takes place...
374
00:22:24,289 --> 00:22:27,234
on a global scale as well
as within each nation.
375
00:22:31,473 --> 00:22:33,734
The spectacular false
struggles...
376
00:22:33,882 --> 00:22:36,154
of the rival forms
of separate power...
377
00:22:36,352 --> 00:22:38,101
are also real,
378
00:22:38,256 --> 00:22:41,652
in that they translate the
unequal and conflict laden...
379
00:22:41,742 --> 00:22:43,398
development of the system,
380
00:22:43,555 --> 00:22:47,269
the relatively contradictory
interests of the classes,
381
00:22:47,434 --> 00:22:50,895
or of the subdivisions of classes
that recognize the system,
382
00:22:51,084 --> 00:22:55,362
and define their own
participation in its power.
383
00:22:56,653 --> 00:22:59,693
These diverse oppositions
can present themselves in...
384
00:22:59,808 --> 00:23:02,393
the spectacle by completely
different criteria,
385
00:23:02,548 --> 00:23:06,109
as absolutely different
forms of society.
386
00:23:06,444 --> 00:23:08,909
But in terms of their
actual reality,
387
00:23:09,037 --> 00:23:11,021
as particular sectors,
388
00:23:11,144 --> 00:23:13,444
the truth of their
particularity...
389
00:23:13,576 --> 00:23:17,030
resides in the universal
system that contains them:
390
00:23:17,238 --> 00:23:18,845
in the unique movement...
391
00:23:18,992 --> 00:23:22,981
that has made the planet
its field, capitalism.
392
00:23:24,036 --> 00:23:26,635
The movement of banalization,
393
00:23:26,801 --> 00:23:30,069
which, in the shimmering
diversions of the spectacle,
394
00:23:30,229 --> 00:23:32,963
dominates modern
society globally,
395
00:23:33,123 --> 00:23:35,374
also dominates it
at every point...
396
00:23:35,506 --> 00:23:38,249
where the developed
consumption of commodities...
397
00:23:38,396 --> 00:23:40,348
has in appearance
multiplied...
398
00:23:40,537 --> 00:23:43,510
the roles and the objects
from which to choose.
399
00:23:43,867 --> 00:23:46,717
The survival of the religion
and of the family-
400
00:23:46,902 --> 00:23:51,189
which remains the principal form
of the inheritance of class power-
401
00:23:51,347 --> 00:23:54,452
and therefore of the moral
repression which they assure,
402
00:23:54,608 --> 00:23:57,449
can be combined as one...
403
00:23:57,613 --> 00:23:59,598
with the redundant
affirmation...
404
00:23:59,787 --> 00:24:01,857
of the enjoyment
of this world,
405
00:24:02,084 --> 00:24:04,354
this world being produced...
406
00:24:04,503 --> 00:24:06,520
precisely only as
pseudo-enjoyment...
407
00:24:06,692 --> 00:24:08,984
which preserves
repression within it.
408
00:24:09,112 --> 00:24:12,117
To the smug acceptance
of what exists,
409
00:24:12,294 --> 00:24:15,312
purely spectacular
revolt can be added...
410
00:24:15,492 --> 00:24:18,243
as something identical:
411
00:24:18,486 --> 00:24:20,624
this translates
the simple fact...
412
00:24:20,757 --> 00:24:24,448
that even dissatisfaction became
a commodity at the moment...
413
00:24:24,637 --> 00:24:27,498
that economic abundance
found itself capable...
414
00:24:27,613 --> 00:24:29,420
of extending its production...
415
00:24:29,584 --> 00:24:33,230
to the point of utilizing even
that sort of raw material.
416
00:24:33,666 --> 00:24:37,324
By concentrating in himself
the image of a possible role,
417
00:24:37,447 --> 00:24:38,661
the star,
418
00:24:38,776 --> 00:24:41,871
the spectacular representation
of living man,
419
00:24:42,081 --> 00:24:44,578
thus concentrates
this banality.
420
00:24:44,853 --> 00:24:46,837
The condition of the star...
421
00:24:46,952 --> 00:24:50,347
is the specialization of
the apparently lived,
422
00:24:50,684 --> 00:24:52,816
the object of the
identification...
423
00:24:52,914 --> 00:24:55,362
with apparent life
without depth,
424
00:24:55,577 --> 00:24:59,392
that should compensate for the
fragmentation of productive...
425
00:24:59,474 --> 00:25:01,895
specializations actually lived.
426
00:25:02,326 --> 00:25:06,734
Stars exist in order to represent
varied types of life styles...
427
00:25:06,943 --> 00:25:09,851
and styles of understanding
society,
428
00:25:10,011 --> 00:25:12,927
free to be exercised
globally.
429
00:25:13,103 --> 00:25:17,566
They incarnate the inaccessible
result of social labor...
430
00:25:17,811 --> 00:25:20,731
by miming the by-products
of this labor...
431
00:25:20,943 --> 00:25:24,740
that are magically transferred
above it as its goal:
432
00:25:25,216 --> 00:25:27,273
power and vacations,
433
00:25:27,537 --> 00:25:29,902
decision-making and
consumption,
434
00:25:30,014 --> 00:25:34,623
that are at the beginning and the
end of an undisputed process.
435
00:25:34,992 --> 00:25:37,732
There, governmental power...
436
00:25:37,871 --> 00:25:40,327
is personified as pseudo-star;
437
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,605
here, the star of consumption
gets itself elected by plebiscite...
438
00:25:44,768 --> 00:25:46,987
as pseudo-power over
the lived.
439
00:25:47,121 --> 00:25:52,318
But, just as these star activities
are not really global,
440
00:25:52,495 --> 00:25:55,054
neither are they varied.
441
00:25:58,155 --> 00:26:00,356
It's the unity of poverty...
442
00:26:00,537 --> 00:26:03,689
that is hidden under
spectacular oppositions.
443
00:26:03,874 --> 00:26:07,032
If some of the diverse forms
of the same alienation...
444
00:26:07,151 --> 00:26:10,656
do battle among themselves
in the guise of total choice,
445
00:26:10,836 --> 00:26:15,753
it's because they're all built upon
the real repressed contradictions.
446
00:26:15,959 --> 00:26:19,835
According to the necessities of
the particular stage of poverty...
447
00:26:19,983 --> 00:26:21,956
which they believe
and maintain,
448
00:26:22,071 --> 00:26:25,418
the spectacle exists in a
concentrated form,
449
00:26:25,533 --> 00:26:27,243
or in a diffused form.
450
00:26:27,631 --> 00:26:28,963
In the two cases,
451
00:26:29,079 --> 00:26:31,809
it's only an image of
happy unification...
452
00:26:31,936 --> 00:26:35,660
surrounded by desolation
and terror,
453
00:26:35,766 --> 00:26:39,042
at the tranquil center
of misfortune.
454
00:26:41,466 --> 00:26:43,501
The concentrated spectacular...
455
00:26:43,681 --> 00:26:47,388
belongs essentially to
bureaucratic capitalism,
456
00:26:47,568 --> 00:26:51,538
while it can be imported as a
technique of state power...
457
00:26:51,685 --> 00:26:54,261
over more backward
mixed economies,
458
00:26:54,416 --> 00:26:58,369
or in certain moments of
crisis of advanced capitalism.
459
00:27:01,658 --> 00:27:04,029
Bureaucratic ownership,
in fact,
460
00:27:04,238 --> 00:27:06,846
is itself concentrated
in the sense that...
461
00:27:06,986 --> 00:27:10,478
the individual bureaucrat has
a relation to the possession...
462
00:27:10,579 --> 00:27:12,127
of the global economy...
463
00:27:12,228 --> 00:27:15,501
only through the intermediary
of bureaucratic community,
464
00:27:15,646 --> 00:27:18,620
and only as a member
of this community.
465
00:27:18,804 --> 00:27:22,880
Besides, the less developed
production of commodities...
466
00:27:23,166 --> 00:27:25,938
is represented as well in
a concentrated form:
467
00:27:26,110 --> 00:27:28,594
the commodity the bureaucracy
controls...
468
00:27:28,751 --> 00:27:30,933
is the totality of
social labor,
469
00:27:31,055 --> 00:27:33,179
and what it sells
back to society...
470
00:27:33,330 --> 00:27:35,221
is mass survival.
471
00:27:35,541 --> 00:27:37,969
The dictatorship of bureaucratic
economics...
472
00:27:38,051 --> 00:27:40,495
cannot allow the
exploited masses...
473
00:27:40,651 --> 00:27:42,917
any notable margin
of choice,
474
00:27:43,102 --> 00:27:45,945
since it is supposed to have
chosen it all by itself...
475
00:27:46,063 --> 00:27:48,249
and since any other
external choice,
476
00:27:48,351 --> 00:27:50,719
whether it concerns
food or music,
477
00:27:50,870 --> 00:27:54,696
is thus already the choice
of its complete destruction.
478
00:27:56,184 --> 00:27:57,865
The diffuse spectacular...
479
00:27:58,013 --> 00:28:00,580
accompanies the abundance
of commodities,
480
00:28:00,777 --> 00:28:04,990
the unperturbed development
of modern capitalism.
481
00:28:06,978 --> 00:28:10,446
Here each commodity
taken by itself...
482
00:28:10,545 --> 00:28:13,601
is justified in the name of the
greatness of production...
483
00:28:13,718 --> 00:28:15,198
of the totality of objects,
484
00:28:15,351 --> 00:28:18,463
of which the spectacle is
an apologetic catalogue.
485
00:28:18,621 --> 00:28:22,576
Irreconcilable claims elbow their
way on the stage of the unified...
486
00:28:22,708 --> 00:28:25,513
spectacle of the economics
of abundance,
487
00:28:25,727 --> 00:28:28,253
to the point that different
star-commodities...
488
00:28:28,384 --> 00:28:31,416
simultaneously support their
contradictory projects...
489
00:28:31,567 --> 00:28:33,271
for managing society,
490
00:28:33,436 --> 00:28:35,551
where the spectacle
of automobiles...
491
00:28:35,652 --> 00:28:39,420
aims at perfect traffic circulation
which destroys old cities,
492
00:28:39,605 --> 00:28:43,828
while the spectacle of the city
itself requires museum districts.
493
00:28:44,084 --> 00:28:47,533
So the already problematic
satisfaction,
494
00:28:47,820 --> 00:28:51,708
which is reputed to belong to
the consumption of the whole,
495
00:28:51,798 --> 00:28:53,816
is immediately falsified...
496
00:28:53,946 --> 00:28:58,320
in that the real consumer can
directly touch only a succession...
497
00:28:58,438 --> 00:29:01,363
of fragments of this
commodity happiness,
498
00:29:01,564 --> 00:29:03,499
fragments from which...
499
00:29:03,617 --> 00:29:08,546
the quality lent to the whole
is evidently absent every time.
500
00:29:09,203 --> 00:29:12,877
Each given commodity
struggles for itself,
501
00:29:13,057 --> 00:29:15,239
cannot recognize the others,
502
00:29:15,394 --> 00:29:19,199
claims to impose itself everywhere
as if it were the only one.
503
00:29:19,528 --> 00:29:23,637
The spectacle is then the epic
poem of this confrontation...
504
00:29:23,866 --> 00:29:27,492
that the fall of no Troy
could conclude.
505
00:29:27,861 --> 00:29:31,217
The spectacle sings not
men and their arms,
506
00:29:31,413 --> 00:29:34,644
but commodities and
their passions.
507
00:29:35,005 --> 00:29:36,998
It's in this blind struggle...
508
00:29:37,099 --> 00:29:39,885
that each commodity,
by following its passion,
509
00:29:40,069 --> 00:29:44,309
in fact realizes in the unconscious
something higher:
510
00:29:44,592 --> 00:29:47,004
the becoming-world
of commodity,
511
00:29:47,127 --> 00:29:50,817
which is as well the becoming-
commodity of the world.
512
00:29:51,055 --> 00:29:54,559
Thus, by a ruse of
commodity reasoning,
513
00:29:54,835 --> 00:29:57,135
the particularness
of the commodity...
514
00:29:57,272 --> 00:29:59,067
is used up as
it does battle,
515
00:29:59,256 --> 00:30:01,487
while the commodity-form...
516
00:30:01,733 --> 00:30:04,501
goes towards its absolute
realization.
517
00:30:06,014 --> 00:30:09,357
In the image of the happy
unification of society...
518
00:30:09,491 --> 00:30:10,819
through consumption,
519
00:30:11,016 --> 00:30:13,658
the real division is suspended...
520
00:30:13,863 --> 00:30:17,570
only until the next non-
accomplishment in the consumable.
521
00:30:18,357 --> 00:30:22,116
Each particular product which
should represent the hope...
522
00:30:22,234 --> 00:30:24,081
of a lightning shortcut,
523
00:30:24,232 --> 00:30:28,256
to the promised land
of total consumption...
524
00:30:28,658 --> 00:30:31,774
is ceremoniously presented
in its turn...
525
00:30:31,868 --> 00:30:34,891
as the decisive singularity.
526
00:30:35,982 --> 00:30:39,733
But as in the case of the
instantaneous spread...
527
00:30:39,901 --> 00:30:43,162
of fashions in apparently
aristocratic first names...
528
00:30:43,347 --> 00:30:47,813
which practically all individuals the
same age will be found to bear,
529
00:30:47,982 --> 00:30:50,952
the object from which one
expects a singular power...
530
00:30:51,069 --> 00:30:54,148
can only be offered for the
devotion of the masses,
531
00:30:54,312 --> 00:30:58,233
because it's been manufactured
in great enough numbers...
532
00:30:58,394 --> 00:31:01,178
to be consumed en masse.
533
00:31:01,472 --> 00:31:04,885
The prestigious character of
this product, whatever it may be,
534
00:31:05,048 --> 00:31:07,813
comes only from its
having been placed...
535
00:31:07,993 --> 00:31:10,044
at the center of
social life,
536
00:31:10,216 --> 00:31:12,020
as the revealed mystery...
537
00:31:12,168 --> 00:31:14,858
of the ultimate end
of production.
538
00:31:16,302 --> 00:31:19,432
The object that was prestigious
in the spectacle..
539
00:31:19,616 --> 00:31:23,479
becomes vulgar the instant
it enters one consumer's home,
540
00:31:23,716 --> 00:31:26,624
at the same time as the
homes of all others.
541
00:31:26,826 --> 00:31:29,838
It reveals too late its
essential poverty,
542
00:31:30,006 --> 00:31:33,516
that is tied to the poverty
of its production.
543
00:31:33,795 --> 00:31:34,829
But already,
544
00:31:34,968 --> 00:31:39,020
there's another object that carries
the justification of the system...
545
00:31:39,209 --> 00:31:42,219
ant the requirement of
being recognized.
546
00:31:44,794 --> 00:31:47,173
The imposture of satisfaction...
547
00:31:47,337 --> 00:31:50,568
must denounce itself
in replacing itself,
548
00:31:50,708 --> 00:31:52,890
in following the change
of products...
549
00:31:53,078 --> 00:31:56,359
and those of the general
conditions of production.
550
00:31:56,539 --> 00:32:00,046
What affirmed with the most
perfect impudence...
551
00:32:00,197 --> 00:32:03,683
its own definitive excellence
changes, however,
552
00:32:04,233 --> 00:32:05,982
in the diffuse spectacle-
553
00:32:06,127 --> 00:32:09,018
though it does so as well in
the concentrated spectacle-
554
00:32:09,153 --> 00:32:11,982
ant it's the system alone
which must continue:
555
00:32:12,213 --> 00:32:14,734
Stalin, as well as the
outmoded commodity,
556
00:32:14,887 --> 00:32:19,041
are denounced by the same
ones who imposed them.
557
00:32:19,291 --> 00:32:22,193
Each new lie in
advertising...
558
00:32:22,424 --> 00:32:25,733
is also the admission
of the preceding lie.
559
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,617
Each collapse of a figure
of totalitarian power...
560
00:32:29,757 --> 00:32:32,557
reveals the illusory
community...
561
00:32:32,708 --> 00:32:34,612
that unanimously approved it,
562
00:32:34,777 --> 00:32:38,028
and which was only an
agglomeration of solitudes...
563
00:32:38,144 --> 00:32:39,920
without illusions.
564
00:32:40,830 --> 00:32:43,935
What the spectacle
presents as perpetual...
565
00:32:44,086 --> 00:32:46,057
is founded upon change,
566
00:32:46,190 --> 00:32:48,195
and must change
with its base.
567
00:32:48,424 --> 00:32:50,937
The spectacle is absolutely
dogmatic,
568
00:32:51,107 --> 00:32:55,508
and at the same time,
can lead to no solid dogma.
569
00:32:55,707 --> 00:32:57,691
Nothing stops for it,
570
00:32:57,896 --> 00:33:00,037
this is the state most
natural to it...
571
00:33:00,205 --> 00:33:03,137
and yet the most contrary
to its inclination.
572
00:33:06,007 --> 00:33:09,245
The unreal unity which
the spectacle proclaims...
573
00:33:09,344 --> 00:33:12,332
is the mask of the
class division on which...
574
00:33:12,482 --> 00:33:16,444
on which the real unity of the
capitalist mode of production rests.
575
00:33:16,653 --> 00:33:19,473
What obliges producers
to participate...
576
00:33:19,572 --> 00:33:21,517
in the construction
of the world...
577
00:33:21,668 --> 00:33:23,960
is also what separates
them from it.
578
00:33:24,118 --> 00:33:27,838
What brings together men
freed of their local and...
579
00:33:28,022 --> 00:33:31,943
national limitations is also what
distances them from one another.
580
00:33:32,063 --> 00:33:35,317
What requires the
deepening of rationality...
581
00:33:35,459 --> 00:33:38,880
is also what nourishes the
irrationality of hierarchical...
582
00:33:39,014 --> 00:33:41,307
exploitation and repression.
583
00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:44,656
What makes the power
of society abstract...
584
00:33:44,858 --> 00:33:47,674
makes its freedom
concrete.
585
00:33:52,908 --> 00:33:56,829
Are we living proletarians,
are we living?
586
00:33:57,281 --> 00:34:01,704
This age, which we recount and
where everything we account for...
587
00:34:01,913 --> 00:34:05,482
no longer belongs to us,
is this life?
588
00:34:05,749 --> 00:34:09,554
And can we not perceive what we
lose unceasingly with the years?
589
00:34:15,128 --> 00:34:18,680
Are rest and nourishment
not weak remedies...
590
00:34:18,847 --> 00:34:22,379
for the continual illness
that torments us?
591
00:34:22,808 --> 00:34:26,503
and what we call the last, is it
anything, properly understood,
592
00:34:26,687 --> 00:34:30,171
but a redoubling, and the final
attack, as it were, of the evil...
593
00:34:30,339 --> 00:34:33,640
that we bring into the world
in being born?
594
00:34:36,503 --> 00:34:39,927
Capitalist production
has unified space,
595
00:34:40,104 --> 00:34:43,594
which is no longer limited
by external societies.
596
00:34:43,787 --> 00:34:49,068
This unification is at the same
time an extensive and intensive...
597
00:34:49,265 --> 00:34:51,296
process of banalization.
598
00:34:51,644 --> 00:34:55,114
Just as the accumulation of
commodities mass produced...
599
00:34:55,248 --> 00:34:57,147
for the abstract space...
600
00:34:57,329 --> 00:34:59,129
of the market was
to break down...
601
00:34:59,263 --> 00:35:01,733
all regional and legal
barriers,
602
00:35:01,889 --> 00:35:05,330
and all of the corporate
restrictions of the middle ages...
603
00:35:05,483 --> 00:35:08,573
which maintained the quality
of artisanal production-
604
00:35:08,763 --> 00:35:11,010
it was also to dissolve
the autonomy...
605
00:35:11,127 --> 00:35:12,920
and the quality of places.
606
00:35:13,110 --> 00:35:15,957
This power of
homogenization...
607
00:35:16,095 --> 00:35:18,018
is the heavy artillery...
608
00:35:18,186 --> 00:35:21,537
that brought down all
the walls of China.
609
00:35:24,321 --> 00:35:27,953
It is in order to become ever
more identical with itself,
610
00:35:28,119 --> 00:35:31,743
to better approach
motionless monotony...
611
00:35:31,940 --> 00:35:34,551
that the free space
of the commodity...
612
00:35:34,736 --> 00:35:39,209
is henceforth constantly
modified and reconstructed.
613
00:35:41,010 --> 00:35:44,661
This society that suppresses
geographical distance...
614
00:35:44,889 --> 00:35:47,418
gathers distance internally,
615
00:35:47,555 --> 00:35:50,521
as spectacular separation.
616
00:35:53,059 --> 00:35:56,282
By product of the circulation
of commodities,
617
00:35:56,429 --> 00:36:00,038
human circulation considered
as a form of consumption,
618
00:36:00,284 --> 00:36:04,390
tourism reduces fundamentally
to the leisure of going to see...
619
00:36:04,565 --> 00:36:06,598
what has become banal.
620
00:36:06,894 --> 00:36:10,958
The economic management of the
frequentation of different places...
621
00:36:11,102 --> 00:36:15,027
is already by itself the
guarantee of their equivalence.
622
00:36:15,284 --> 00:36:19,373
The same modernization that
withdrew time from travel...
623
00:36:19,577 --> 00:36:23,076
withdrew from it as well
the reality of space.
624
00:36:23,822 --> 00:36:27,694
The society founded on the
expansion of alienated...
625
00:36:28,187 --> 00:36:32,645
industrial labor becomes, quite
normally from one end to the other,
626
00:36:33,048 --> 00:36:37,031
unhealthy, noisy, ugly,
and dirty as a factory.
627
00:36:40,033 --> 00:36:42,904
The society which models
all of its surroundings...
628
00:36:42,985 --> 00:36:45,636
has constructed its own
special technology...
629
00:36:45,806 --> 00:36:48,808
for working the concrete
base of this set of tasks:
630
00:36:48,944 --> 00:36:50,608
its own territory.
631
00:36:50,835 --> 00:36:54,762
Urbanism is this takeover
of the natural and human...
632
00:36:54,932 --> 00:36:57,388
environment by capitalism,
which...
633
00:36:57,577 --> 00:37:01,192
logically developing into
absolute domination,
634
00:37:01,390 --> 00:37:03,080
can and must...
635
00:37:03,170 --> 00:37:05,565
remake the totality
of space...
636
00:37:05,711 --> 00:37:07,681
as its own decor.
637
00:37:08,734 --> 00:37:13,286
Man returns to inhabit caves
but the worker now inhabits...
638
00:37:13,523 --> 00:37:17,455
them only by precarious title
and they are for him...
639
00:37:17,612 --> 00:37:21,560
a strange power that he can
daily lack, and from which...
640
00:37:21,895 --> 00:37:26,031
he can also daily be expelled
if he does not pay.
641
00:37:26,252 --> 00:37:29,944
And he must pay for
this house of death.
642
00:37:30,097 --> 00:37:33,341
- Marx, 1844 Manuscripts
643
00:37:34,155 --> 00:37:37,873
If all the technological forces
of capitalist economy...
644
00:37:37,974 --> 00:37:40,953
must be understood as
affecting separations,
645
00:37:41,149 --> 00:37:42,840
in the case of urbanism,
646
00:37:43,028 --> 00:37:46,462
we are dealing with the
outfitting of their general base,
647
00:37:46,614 --> 00:37:49,622
with the handling of the land
suitable for their deployment;
648
00:37:49,803 --> 00:37:52,997
with the very technology
of separation.
649
00:37:53,623 --> 00:37:56,573
For the first time,
a new architecture,
650
00:37:56,748 --> 00:38:00,162
which in every previous epoch
had been reserved for the...
651
00:38:00,297 --> 00:38:02,622
satisfaction of the
ruling classes,
652
00:38:02,757 --> 00:38:05,284
is directly destined
for the poor.
653
00:38:06,656 --> 00:38:09,836
The formal poverty and
the gigantic expanse...
654
00:38:10,046 --> 00:38:12,236
of this new experience
of habitat...
655
00:38:12,405 --> 00:38:15,193
both originate in its
mass character,
656
00:38:15,432 --> 00:38:18,834
which is implied both
by its destination...
657
00:38:19,071 --> 00:38:21,733
and by modern conditions
of construction.
658
00:38:22,074 --> 00:38:24,054
The authoritarian
decision- making,
659
00:38:24,222 --> 00:38:28,376
that manages territory abstractly
as the territory of abstraction,
660
00:38:28,527 --> 00:38:31,408
is of course at the center
of these modern...
661
00:38:31,577 --> 00:38:33,348
conditions of construction.
662
00:38:33,691 --> 00:38:35,746
The threshold crossed
in the growth...
663
00:38:35,881 --> 00:38:37,979
of the material
power of society,
664
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,567
and the delay in the conscious
domination of this power,
665
00:38:41,702 --> 00:38:44,040
are spread out for
display in urbanism.
666
00:38:44,411 --> 00:38:48,167
The environment, which is
reconstructed ever more...
667
00:38:48,378 --> 00:38:52,269
hastily for repressive control
and for profit, at the same time...
668
00:38:52,496 --> 00:38:56,355
becomes ever more fragile
and incites further vandalism.
669
00:38:56,759 --> 00:39:00,659
Capitalism, in its spectacular state,
rebuilds a fake version of everything,
670
00:39:00,979 --> 00:39:05,005
and produces incendiaries.
Thus its decor becomes...
671
00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:08,963
everywhere inflammable
as a high school in France.
672
00:39:09,335 --> 00:39:12,320
History which threatens
this twilight world...
673
00:39:12,484 --> 00:39:15,242
is also the force that can
bring the submission of...
674
00:39:15,411 --> 00:39:17,213
space to lived time.
675
00:39:17,537 --> 00:39:22,015
The proletarian revolution is this
critique of human geography,
676
00:39:22,201 --> 00:39:25,654
through which individuals
and communities...
677
00:39:25,788 --> 00:39:29,009
must construct the
sites and events...
678
00:39:29,244 --> 00:39:31,397
corresponding to
the appropriation,
679
00:39:31,487 --> 00:39:33,619
not only of their labor,
680
00:39:33,824 --> 00:39:35,786
but of their total history.
681
00:39:35,973 --> 00:39:38,251
In this moving
game-space,
682
00:39:38,349 --> 00:39:41,820
and from the freely chosen
variations of the rules of the game,
683
00:39:41,955 --> 00:39:44,436
autonomy of place may
be rediscovered,
684
00:39:44,554 --> 00:39:47,957
without reintroducing an
exclusive attachment to the land,
685
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,063
and thus,
686
00:39:49,244 --> 00:39:51,803
bring back the reality
of the journey,
687
00:39:51,999 --> 00:39:53,016
and of life,
688
00:39:53,185 --> 00:39:56,166
understood as a journey
having its entire meaning...
689
00:39:56,318 --> 00:39:57,801
within itself.
690
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,054
- What's your pleasure?
- Whiskey.
691
00:42:06,849 --> 00:42:10,194
The time of production,
the commodity-time,
692
00:42:10,376 --> 00:42:14,015
is an infinite accumulation
of equivalent intervals.
693
00:42:14,251 --> 00:42:16,828
It is the abstraction
of irreversible time,
694
00:42:17,010 --> 00:42:20,409
of which all segments must
prove on the chronometer...
695
00:42:20,562 --> 00:42:23,418
only their quantitative
equality.
696
00:42:25,355 --> 00:42:28,876
This time is, in its
entire effective reality,
697
00:42:29,044 --> 00:42:32,716
just what it is in its
exchangeable character.
698
00:42:34,758 --> 00:42:37,904
the general time of
human non-development...
699
00:42:38,071 --> 00:42:40,986
exists as well in the
complementary aspect...
700
00:42:41,206 --> 00:42:43,530
of a consumable time
which returns...
701
00:42:43,665 --> 00:42:45,605
to the daily life
of society,
702
00:42:45,773 --> 00:42:48,422
from this determined
production,
703
00:42:48,643 --> 00:42:51,318
as pseudo-cyclical time.
704
00:42:51,948 --> 00:42:53,536
Pseudo-cyclical time...
705
00:42:53,705 --> 00:42:57,215
is that of the consumption of
modern economic survival,
706
00:42:57,436 --> 00:43:00,587
augmented survival, where the
experience of daily life...
707
00:43:00,717 --> 00:43:03,798
remains deprived of decision-
making and is forced to submit,
708
00:43:03,951 --> 00:43:06,953
no longer to the natural order,
but to the pseudo-nature...
709
00:43:07,101 --> 00:43:09,408
developed in
alienated labor;
710
00:43:09,567 --> 00:43:11,280
and therefore this
time quite...
711
00:43:11,427 --> 00:43:14,469
naturally rediscovers
the old cyclical rhythm...
712
00:43:14,587 --> 00:43:18,208
which governs pre-
industrial societies.
713
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,279
Pseudo-cyclical time
both finds...
714
00:43:21,531 --> 00:43:24,664
its support in the natural
imprints of cyclical time,
715
00:43:24,804 --> 00:43:28,317
and from them composes
new homologous combinations:
716
00:43:28,469 --> 00:43:29,882
day and night,
717
00:43:30,028 --> 00:43:32,464
weekly work
and leisure,
718
00:43:32,583 --> 00:43:35,817
the recurrence of
vacation periods.
719
00:43:36,591 --> 00:43:40,648
Consumable pseudo-cyclical
time is spectacular time,
720
00:43:40,821 --> 00:43:43,973
both as the time of the
consumption of images,
721
00:43:44,091 --> 00:43:45,068
in the narrow sense,
722
00:43:45,203 --> 00:43:47,595
and as the image of the
consumption of time,
723
00:43:47,746 --> 00:43:49,672
in its entire extended
sense.
724
00:43:49,834 --> 00:43:52,294
The time of the
consumption of images,
725
00:43:52,393 --> 00:43:54,434
the medium of
all commodities,
726
00:43:54,583 --> 00:43:56,411
is inseparably the field...
727
00:43:56,584 --> 00:43:59,514
where the instruments of the
spectacle hold full sway,
728
00:43:59,652 --> 00:44:02,341
and the goal that the
latter presents globally,
729
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,843
as the location and
central figure...
730
00:44:05,011 --> 00:44:07,861
of all private consumption.
731
00:44:09,042 --> 00:44:11,742
the social image of the
consumption of time,
732
00:44:11,871 --> 00:44:12,972
for its part,
733
00:44:13,093 --> 00:44:14,914
is exclusively dominated...
734
00:44:15,037 --> 00:44:17,790
by moments of leisure
pursuits and vacations,
735
00:44:17,965 --> 00:44:20,476
moments represented
at a distance...
736
00:44:20,597 --> 00:44:22,502
and postulated
as desirable,
737
00:44:22,624 --> 00:44:25,265
like all spectacular
commodities.
738
00:44:25,536 --> 00:44:28,521
These commodities are here
explicitly presented...
739
00:44:28,620 --> 00:44:30,645
as the moment
of real life,
740
00:44:30,797 --> 00:44:33,958
it is only a matter of waiting
for its cyclical return.
741
00:44:34,312 --> 00:44:37,285
But in these very moments
assigned to life,
742
00:44:37,535 --> 00:44:39,241
it is still the spectacle...
743
00:44:39,356 --> 00:44:41,488
which is to be seen
and reproduced,
744
00:44:41,569 --> 00:44:44,271
as it attains a greater
intensity.
745
00:44:44,497 --> 00:44:47,561
What was represented
as real life...
746
00:44:47,782 --> 00:44:49,265
reveals itself simply...
747
00:44:49,416 --> 00:44:52,833
as more truly
spectacular life.
748
00:44:53,460 --> 00:44:57,642
While the consumption of
cyclical time in ancient societies...
749
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:01,236
was in accord with the
real labor of these societies,
750
00:45:01,408 --> 00:45:03,426
the pseudo-cyclical
consumption...
751
00:45:03,564 --> 00:45:07,138
of a developed economy finds
itself in contradiction with...
752
00:45:07,391 --> 00:45:11,097
the irreversible abstract
time of its production.
753
00:45:11,651 --> 00:45:15,841
While cyclical time was
the time of static illusion,
754
00:45:15,954 --> 00:45:17,383
really lived,
755
00:45:17,517 --> 00:45:19,039
spectacular time...
756
00:45:19,179 --> 00:45:22,147
is the time of reality as
it transforms itself,
757
00:45:22,287 --> 00:45:24,502
lived in illusion.
758
00:45:24,887 --> 00:45:27,121
What's always new
in the process of...
759
00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:29,127
the production of things...
760
00:45:29,261 --> 00:45:31,555
is never found
in consumption,
761
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,614
which remains the extended
return of the same.
762
00:45:34,804 --> 00:45:38,905
Because dead labor continues
to dominate living labor,
763
00:45:39,035 --> 00:45:42,923
in spectacular time the
past dominates the present.
764
00:45:45,736 --> 00:45:49,718
Another side of the deficiency
of general historical life...
765
00:45:49,836 --> 00:45:53,043
is that individual life
has as yet no history.
766
00:45:53,748 --> 00:45:56,357
The pseudo-events
that crowd...
767
00:45:56,545 --> 00:45:58,842
into spectacular
dramatization,
768
00:45:58,972 --> 00:46:02,353
have not been lived by those
who are informed by them,
769
00:46:02,523 --> 00:46:03,902
and what's more,
770
00:46:04,065 --> 00:46:07,790
they are lost in the inflation
of their hurried replacement,
771
00:46:07,941 --> 00:46:11,397
with each thrust of the
spectacular machinery.
772
00:46:11,602 --> 00:46:14,994
Furthermore, what was
really lived...
773
00:46:15,180 --> 00:46:16,494
is without relation...
774
00:46:16,612 --> 00:46:19,795
to the irreversible official
time of the society,
775
00:46:19,999 --> 00:46:21,854
and in direct opposition...
776
00:46:21,959 --> 00:46:24,266
to the pseudo-cyclical
rhythm of the...
777
00:46:24,418 --> 00:46:27,012
consumable by-products
of this time.
778
00:46:27,487 --> 00:46:31,039
This individual experience of
separate daily life remains...
779
00:46:31,173 --> 00:46:32,841
without a language,
780
00:46:33,015 --> 00:46:34,294
without concept,
781
00:46:34,423 --> 00:46:37,116
without critical access
to its own past,
782
00:46:37,247 --> 00:46:39,077
which is recorded
nowhere.
783
00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:41,357
It is not communicated.
784
00:46:41,578 --> 00:46:43,824
It is not understood
and is forgotten...
785
00:46:43,972 --> 00:46:47,009
to the profit of the false
spectacular memory...
786
00:46:47,110 --> 00:46:49,114
of the non-memorable.
787
00:46:50,427 --> 00:46:53,941
That's the way it goes, with
friends. Lose one, find one.
788
00:46:54,896 --> 00:46:56,947
Play something for me,
Mr. Guitar.
789
00:46:57,841 --> 00:46:59,644
Anything special?
790
00:47:00,835 --> 00:47:03,271
Just put a lot
of love in it.
791
00:47:03,696 --> 00:47:07,872
He ain't gonna play so good all
stretched out on that crap table.
792
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,827
What's eating
the fancy man?
793
00:47:10,127 --> 00:47:11,996
I don't know, what's
your trouble, Kid?
794
00:47:12,165 --> 00:47:14,035
I'm in no trouble,
he is.
795
00:47:15,434 --> 00:47:19,411
Fooling with strange woman
can bring a man a lot of grief.
796
00:47:20,437 --> 00:47:22,192
You a strange woman?
797
00:47:22,331 --> 00:47:23,697
Only to strangers.
798
00:47:23,883 --> 00:47:25,787
What's going on
with you two?
799
00:47:26,042 --> 00:47:28,147
Just what you
see friend.
800
00:47:28,852 --> 00:47:31,686
Ooh, you picked the wrong
place to come to, mister.
801
00:47:31,838 --> 00:47:34,533
The lady sent for
me, not you.
802
00:47:36,208 --> 00:47:38,062
Head, I’m gonna
kill you mister;
803
00:47:38,258 --> 00:47:40,386
tails, you can play
her a tune.
804
00:47:48,352 --> 00:47:49,857
Play me a tune.
805
00:48:12,934 --> 00:48:14,496
Play something else.
806
00:48:16,084 --> 00:48:17,414
The spectacle,
807
00:48:17,626 --> 00:48:20,296
as the present social
organization...
808
00:48:20,414 --> 00:48:23,329
of the paralysis of history
and of memory,
809
00:48:23,481 --> 00:48:25,219
of the abandonment
of history...
810
00:48:25,335 --> 00:48:27,924
erected on the basis
of historical time,
811
00:48:28,110 --> 00:48:30,969
is the false consciousness
of time.
812
00:48:31,543 --> 00:48:33,171
Under the fashions...
813
00:48:33,322 --> 00:48:36,941
which cancel themselves and are
recomposed on the frivolous...
814
00:48:37,093 --> 00:48:39,543
surface of contemplated
pseudo-cyclical time,
815
00:48:39,679 --> 00:48:41,553
the grand style
of the epoch is...
816
00:48:41,771 --> 00:48:45,499
always to be found in what
is oriented by the obvious...
817
00:48:45,668 --> 00:48:48,582
and secret necessity
of revolution.
818
00:48:55,670 --> 00:48:58,820
It was approaching
midnight.
819
00:49:05,241 --> 00:49:08,239
And therefore, since
I cannot prove a lover,
820
00:49:08,390 --> 00:49:12,197
to entertain these fair
well-spoken days,
821
00:49:12,567 --> 00:49:16,171
[?]I am determined
to prove a villain,[?]
822
00:49:16,502 --> 00:49:20,190
and hate the idle
pleasures of these days.
823
00:51:28,006 --> 00:51:30,207
Reasoning about
history is,
824
00:51:30,392 --> 00:51:33,390
inseparably, reasoning
about power.
825
00:51:33,690 --> 00:51:35,917
Greece was
the moment...
826
00:51:36,086 --> 00:51:38,646
when power and its
transformations were...
827
00:51:38,798 --> 00:51:40,668
argued and understood,
828
00:51:40,856 --> 00:51:43,905
the democracy of the
masters of society.
829
00:51:44,082 --> 00:51:47,398
That was the inverse of the
conditions known to the...
830
00:51:47,590 --> 00:51:49,748
despotic State,
where power...
831
00:51:49,830 --> 00:51:52,624
settles its accounts
only with itself,
832
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,858
in the inaccessible
obscurity...
833
00:51:54,959 --> 00:51:57,284
of its most concentrated
point,
834
00:51:57,564 --> 00:51:59,643
through a palace
revolution,
835
00:51:59,812 --> 00:52:02,060
that success or failure...
836
00:52:02,296 --> 00:52:04,931
render equally
beyond discussion.
837
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:09,471
In the Chronicle of the North
men act in silence,
838
00:52:09,787 --> 00:52:13,755
they make war, they conclude
peace, but they themselves...
839
00:52:13,992 --> 00:52:18,454
never say, nor does the chronicle
add, why they make war,
840
00:52:18,641 --> 00:52:23,021
for what reason they make peace;
in the city in the court of the prince,
841
00:52:23,227 --> 00:52:26,935
there is nothing to be heard,
all is silent, all sit behind...
842
00:52:27,245 --> 00:52:31,213
closed doors, and deliberate
for themselves; the doors open,
843
00:52:31,639 --> 00:52:35,726
the men come out onto the scene,
they perform some action, but...
844
00:52:36,066 --> 00:52:38,041
they act in silence.
845
00:52:38,296 --> 00:52:42,027
Soloviev, History of Russia
From the Most Ancient Times.
846
00:52:42,899 --> 00:52:45,953
When the dry, unexplained
chronology of...
847
00:52:46,088 --> 00:52:49,429
divinized power
speaking to its servants,
848
00:52:49,649 --> 00:52:52,774
that wishes to be understood
only as the earthly execution...
849
00:52:52,893 --> 00:52:54,489
of the commandments of myth,
850
00:52:54,579 --> 00:52:56,366
can be surmounted...
851
00:52:56,539 --> 00:52:59,131
and becomes conscious
history,
852
00:52:59,344 --> 00:53:02,951
it has been necessary for
real participation in history...
853
00:53:03,104 --> 00:53:06,067
to be lived by
extended groups.
854
00:53:07,382 --> 00:53:09,711
Out of this practical
communication...
855
00:53:09,877 --> 00:53:12,499
among those who
recognized each other...
856
00:53:12,772 --> 00:53:15,378
as the possessors of
a singular present,
857
00:53:15,616 --> 00:53:19,299
who experienced the
qualitative richness of events...
858
00:53:19,418 --> 00:53:20,695
as their activity...
859
00:53:20,816 --> 00:53:23,973
and as the place where
they resided -their epoch-,
860
00:53:24,170 --> 00:53:28,112
is born the general language
of historical communication.
861
00:53:28,829 --> 00:53:31,946
Those for whom irreversible
time existed...
862
00:53:32,082 --> 00:53:33,699
discover in it both...
863
00:53:33,831 --> 00:53:36,521
the memorable and
the threat of oblivion:
864
00:53:36,652 --> 00:53:39,742
"Herodotous of Halicarnassus
presents here the results...
865
00:53:39,896 --> 00:53:41,378
of his researches,
866
00:53:41,546 --> 00:53:45,088
so that time might not
abolish the acts of men..."
867
00:54:00,102 --> 00:54:02,476
- Good evening, York.
- Good evening, sir.
868
00:54:02,595 --> 00:54:04,313
How about a cup
of coffee?
869
00:54:05,195 --> 00:54:07,937
Be prepared to remain
all winter,
870
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,165
all next winter, if necessary.
871
00:54:12,019 --> 00:54:14,747
I've waited a long time
for that order, Sir...
872
00:54:15,117 --> 00:54:18,984
- which of course I didn't hear.
- Of course you didn't hear.
873
00:54:22,190 --> 00:54:23,688
If you fail,
874
00:54:24,142 --> 00:54:27,231
I assure you the members
of your court martial will...
875
00:54:27,367 --> 00:54:30,041
be the men who rode with
us down at Shenandoah.
876
00:54:30,244 --> 00:54:32,077
I'll hand pick'em myself.
877
00:54:33,058 --> 00:54:34,912
Shenandoah.
878
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:41,179
I wonder what history
will say about Shenandoah.
879
00:54:42,670 --> 00:54:44,446
The victory of the
bourgeoisie...
880
00:54:44,616 --> 00:54:47,365
is the victory of profoundly
historical time,
881
00:54:47,468 --> 00:54:48,830
because it is the time...
882
00:54:48,984 --> 00:54:52,497
of the economic production
that transforms the society,
883
00:54:52,634 --> 00:54:55,222
permanently and from
top to bottom.
884
00:54:55,645 --> 00:54:58,155
As long as agrarian
production...
885
00:54:58,310 --> 00:55:01,466
remains the principal
labor, cyclical time...
886
00:55:01,603 --> 00:55:04,092
which remains present
at the base of society...
887
00:55:04,281 --> 00:55:07,282
nourishes the combined
forces of tradition,
888
00:55:07,417 --> 00:55:09,454
that will put the breaks
on movement.
889
00:55:09,603 --> 00:55:12,979
But the irreversible time
of bourgeois economics...
890
00:55:13,064 --> 00:55:14,716
extirpates these survivals,
891
00:55:14,853 --> 00:55:16,726
throughout the entire world.
892
00:55:16,871 --> 00:55:19,765
History, that until then
appeared only...
893
00:55:19,986 --> 00:55:23,053
as the movement of
the ruling class,
894
00:55:23,332 --> 00:55:26,334
and thus written as
the history of events,
895
00:55:26,539 --> 00:55:30,283
is now comprised of
general movement,
896
00:55:30,628 --> 00:55:35,021
and in this harsh movement
individuals are sacrificed.
897
00:55:36,233 --> 00:55:39,743
History which discovers its
base in political economy...
898
00:55:39,913 --> 00:55:43,649
now knows of the existence of
what had been its unconscious,
899
00:55:43,885 --> 00:55:45,209
but which remains,
900
00:55:45,328 --> 00:55:48,818
nonetheless, the unconscious
which it cannot bring to light.
901
00:55:49,151 --> 00:55:52,068
It is only this blind
prehistory,
902
00:55:52,340 --> 00:55:55,456
a new fatality which
no one dominates,
903
00:55:55,654 --> 00:55:58,622
that the commodity economy
has democratized.
904
00:56:03,134 --> 00:56:05,808
Thus the bourgeoisie has
made known to and...
905
00:56:05,910 --> 00:56:07,686
imposed upon society,
906
00:56:07,768 --> 00:56:10,046
an irreversible historical
time,
907
00:56:10,187 --> 00:56:12,358
but refuses to society
its usage.
908
00:56:12,853 --> 00:56:15,677
"History was, but
it is no more,"
909
00:56:15,854 --> 00:56:18,733
because the class of the
owners of the economy,
910
00:56:18,896 --> 00:56:21,657
which cannot break with
economic history,
911
00:56:21,865 --> 00:56:24,720
must repress as an
immediate threat...
912
00:56:24,941 --> 00:56:27,826
any irreversible
use of time.
913
00:56:28,304 --> 00:56:29,878
The ruling class,
914
00:56:30,058 --> 00:56:33,640
made up of specialists in
the possession of things,
915
00:56:33,844 --> 00:56:36,978
who are themselves, because
of that, a possession of things,
916
00:56:37,097 --> 00:56:38,703
must tie their fate...
917
00:56:38,883 --> 00:56:41,409
to the maintenance
of this reified history,
918
00:56:41,606 --> 00:56:46,027
to the permanence of a
new immobility in history.
919
00:56:47,207 --> 00:56:50,791
For the first time, the worker,
at the base of society,
920
00:56:51,004 --> 00:56:54,181
is not a stranger to history
in a material sense,
921
00:56:54,403 --> 00:56:59,239
for now it is by means of this base
that society irreversibly moves.
922
00:56:59,462 --> 00:57:03,857
In the demand to live the
historical time that it makes,
923
00:57:04,094 --> 00:57:05,679
the proletariat finds,
924
00:57:05,781 --> 00:57:09,847
the simple unforgettable center
of its revolutionary project;
925
00:57:10,022 --> 00:57:12,814
and each of its attempts,
smashed until now,
926
00:57:12,910 --> 00:57:14,807
to execute this project...
927
00:57:14,952 --> 00:57:17,052
marks a possible
point of departure...
928
00:57:17,215 --> 00:57:19,647
for new historical life.
929
00:57:25,799 --> 00:57:28,142
With the development
of capitalism,
930
00:57:28,295 --> 00:57:31,713
irreversible time is
unified globally.
931
00:57:31,967 --> 00:57:34,610
Universal history
becomes a reality,
932
00:57:34,797 --> 00:57:38,987
for the entire world is assembled
for the development of this time.
933
00:57:39,333 --> 00:57:42,782
But this history which is
everywhere at one the same,
934
00:57:43,020 --> 00:57:47,414
is still only, the intra-
historical refusal of history.
935
00:57:47,756 --> 00:57:50,114
The time of economic
production,
936
00:57:50,242 --> 00:57:52,809
cut into equal
abstract fragments,
937
00:57:52,997 --> 00:57:56,789
appears across the entire
planet as the same day.
938
00:57:57,090 --> 00:58:01,161
Unified irreversible time is
the time of the world market,
939
00:58:01,331 --> 00:58:04,174
and as a corollary of
the world spectacle.
940
00:58:06,804 --> 00:58:09,955
The irreversible time of
production is first of all...
941
00:58:10,073 --> 00:58:12,015
the measure of commodities.
942
00:58:12,203 --> 00:58:15,712
Thus, the time which is
officially affirmed across...
943
00:58:15,865 --> 00:58:19,867
the entire expanse of the globe
as the general time of society,
944
00:58:20,128 --> 00:58:24,346
signifying only the specialized
interests which constitute it,
945
00:58:24,547 --> 00:58:26,863
is merely one
particular time.
946
00:58:33,081 --> 00:58:36,139
The class struggles
of the long...
947
00:58:36,237 --> 00:58:38,534
revolutionary epoch...
948
00:58:38,681 --> 00:58:41,388
inaugurated by the rise
of the bourgeoisie...
949
00:58:41,591 --> 00:58:44,997
develop inseparably from
historical thought, dialectics,
950
00:58:45,217 --> 00:58:49,727
thought which no longer stops
at an investigation of the meaning...
951
00:58:49,907 --> 00:58:53,241
of what is, but rises to the
knowledge of the dissolution...
952
00:58:53,378 --> 00:58:54,498
of all that is;
953
00:58:54,634 --> 00:58:58,251
and in the movement
dissolves all separation.
954
00:59:01,422 --> 00:59:04,812
This historical thought is still
only the consciousness...
955
00:59:05,016 --> 00:59:06,464
which arrives late,
956
00:59:06,703 --> 00:59:10,159
and which declares its
justification post festum.
957
00:59:10,533 --> 00:59:14,601
Thus, it has surpassed
separation only in thought.
958
00:59:14,788 --> 00:59:17,326
The paradox which
consists in suspending...
959
00:59:17,479 --> 00:59:19,438
the meaning of all
reality in favor of...
960
00:59:19,591 --> 00:59:20,987
its historical accomplishment,
961
00:59:21,107 --> 00:59:23,229
and in revealing this
meaning at the same time...
962
00:59:23,357 --> 00:59:26,583
by constituting itself as the
accomplishment of history,
963
00:59:26,763 --> 00:59:28,633
devolves from the
simple fact...
964
00:59:28,788 --> 00:59:31,158
that the thinker of the
bourgeois revolutions...
965
00:59:31,290 --> 00:59:33,570
of the 17th and 18th
centuries...
966
00:59:33,709 --> 00:59:35,754
sought in his philosophy...
967
00:59:35,890 --> 00:59:38,665
only reconciliation
with their results.
968
01:00:25,713 --> 01:00:27,960
When the proletariat
demonstrates...
969
01:00:28,049 --> 01:00:30,511
by its own existence
in acts that...
970
01:00:30,690 --> 01:00:34,069
this historical thought
is not forgotten,
971
01:00:34,283 --> 01:00:36,345
the denial of the conclusion...
972
01:00:36,482 --> 01:00:39,752
is also the confirmation
of the method.
973
01:00:41,819 --> 01:00:43,954
The flaw of Marx's theory...
974
01:00:44,108 --> 01:00:47,241
is naturally the flaw in the
revolutionary struggle...
975
01:00:47,411 --> 01:00:49,284
of the proletariat
of his epoch.
976
01:00:49,505 --> 01:00:53,257
The working class did not
decree permanent revolution...
977
01:00:53,401 --> 01:00:55,673
in Germany in 1848;
978
01:00:55,844 --> 01:00:59,079
the Commune was defeated
in isolation.
979
01:00:59,296 --> 01:01:02,883
Revolutionary theory can
thus not yet attain...
980
01:01:03,019 --> 01:01:05,641
its own total existence.
981
01:01:07,245 --> 01:01:09,520
All theoretical insufficiency...
982
01:01:09,639 --> 01:01:13,010
in the scientific defense
of proletarian revolution-
983
01:01:13,190 --> 01:01:16,327
in the content as well as in
the form of its exposition-
984
01:01:16,461 --> 01:01:18,181
can be traced
back to an...
985
01:01:18,352 --> 01:01:21,978
identification of the proletariat
with the bourgeoisie...
986
01:01:22,211 --> 01:01:25,839
from the point of view of the
revolutionary seizure of power.
987
01:01:58,033 --> 01:02:02,104
The only two classes which effectively
correspond to Marx's theory,
988
01:02:02,274 --> 01:02:06,370
the two pure classes towards which
the entire analysis of Capital leads,
989
01:02:06,523 --> 01:02:08,696
the bourgeoisie and
the proletariat,
990
01:02:08,836 --> 01:02:12,409
are likewise, the only two
revolutionary classes in history,
991
01:02:12,567 --> 01:02:14,727
but under different
conditions:
992
01:02:15,142 --> 01:02:17,453
the bourgeois revolution
is over;
993
01:02:17,717 --> 01:02:20,361
the proletarian revolution
is a project,
994
01:02:20,637 --> 01:02:23,187
born on the basis of the
preceding revolution,
995
01:02:23,385 --> 01:02:25,742
but differing from it
qualitatively.
996
01:02:26,059 --> 01:02:29,979
By neglecting the originality of
the historical role of the bourgeoisie,
997
01:02:30,152 --> 01:02:32,907
one masks the concrete
originality...
998
01:02:33,021 --> 01:02:34,777
of the proletarian project...
999
01:02:34,915 --> 01:02:36,359
which can accomplish...
1000
01:02:36,539 --> 01:02:39,023
nothing save by carrying
its own colors...
1001
01:02:39,221 --> 01:02:42,665
and by knowing "the
immensity of its tasks".
1002
01:02:44,012 --> 01:02:45,948
The bourgeoisie came
to power...
1003
01:02:46,153 --> 01:02:49,254
because it is the class of the
economy in development.
1004
01:02:49,477 --> 01:02:53,512
The proletariat can become a
power itself only by becoming...
1005
01:02:53,699 --> 01:02:55,765
the class of consciousness.
1006
01:02:56,371 --> 01:02:58,783
The maturing of productive
forces...
1007
01:02:58,906 --> 01:03:01,180
cannot guarantee
such power,
1008
01:03:01,398 --> 01:03:05,503
even by the detour of increased
dispossession that it brings.
1009
01:03:05,803 --> 01:03:07,860
The Jacobin seizure
of the State...
1010
01:03:07,979 --> 01:03:10,142
cannot be its instrument.
1011
01:03:10,306 --> 01:03:11,893
No ideology can...
1012
01:03:12,013 --> 01:03:16,170
be of use to disguise partial
goals as general goals,
1013
01:03:16,367 --> 01:03:18,320
for it can maintain...
1014
01:03:18,473 --> 01:03:22,357
no partial reality which
actually belongs to it.
1015
01:03:24,478 --> 01:03:27,171
The ideological alienation
of theory...
1016
01:03:27,326 --> 01:03:30,636
can longer recognize then
the practical verification of...
1017
01:03:30,801 --> 01:03:33,769
unified historical thought
which it betrayed,
1018
01:03:33,930 --> 01:03:36,271
when such a verification
arose...
1019
01:03:36,418 --> 01:03:38,661
in the spontaneous
struggles of workers;
1020
01:03:38,879 --> 01:03:41,755
it can only conspire
to repress...
1021
01:03:41,890 --> 01:03:44,513
the appearance and memory
of such a thing.
1022
01:03:44,768 --> 01:03:49,145
However, these historical forms which
have appeared within the struggle...
1023
01:03:49,264 --> 01:03:51,248
are precisely the
practical milieu...
1024
01:03:51,402 --> 01:03:54,365
which was missing for theory
in order for it to be true.
1025
01:03:54,535 --> 01:03:56,945
They are a requirement
of theory,
1026
01:03:57,102 --> 01:03:59,885
but had not been
formulated theoretically.
1027
01:04:00,104 --> 01:04:01,145
The Soviet,
1028
01:04:01,268 --> 01:04:03,834
was not a discovery
of theory.
1029
01:04:03,991 --> 01:04:06,860
And already, the highest
theoretical truth...
1030
01:04:07,057 --> 01:04:10,107
of the International Workingmen's
Association...
1031
01:04:10,311 --> 01:04:13,007
was in its existence
in practice.
1032
01:04:21,837 --> 01:04:26,827
You'll learn just how much the
bread of strangers tastes of salt,
1033
01:04:27,193 --> 01:04:30,207
and just how rude
a passage it is,
1034
01:04:30,419 --> 01:04:34,404
to descend and to climb
the stairways of strangers.
1035
01:04:36,481 --> 01:04:40,687
[?]And the heaviest burden
you will carry,[?]
1036
01:04:41,330 --> 01:04:45,434
will be the bad and
inept company...
1037
01:04:45,852 --> 01:04:50,356
that you will fall in with
in this valley of exile.
1038
01:04:53,411 --> 01:04:57,464
[?]So that it will be a credit
to your honor, thereafter,[?]
1039
01:04:57,890 --> 01:05:01,910
to have been a party
unto yourself alone.
1040
01:05:05,912 --> 01:05:07,815
The same historical
moment,
1041
01:05:07,995 --> 01:05:11,531
when bolshevism triumphed
for itself in Russia, and...
1042
01:05:11,709 --> 01:05:16,323
when social democracy fought
victoriously for the old world,
1043
01:05:16,499 --> 01:05:18,456
marks the outright birth...
1044
01:05:18,632 --> 01:05:19,993
an order of things...
1045
01:05:20,141 --> 01:05:23,553
at the heart of the domination
of the modern spectacle,
1046
01:05:23,783 --> 01:05:25,899
worker representation...
1047
01:05:26,105 --> 01:05:29,297
came into radical opposition
to the class itself.
1048
01:05:29,928 --> 01:05:34,204
Those who want to institute
a State capitalism as the...
1049
01:05:34,459 --> 01:05:39,240
property of a totalitarian bureaucracy
and not destroy the Councils;
1050
01:05:39,495 --> 01:05:44,513
or those who want to abolish
class society and do not condemn...
1051
01:05:44,758 --> 01:05:49,747
all unions and the specialized
hierarchical parties- they will...
1052
01:05:50,036 --> 01:05:54,004
endure but a short while.
1053
01:05:55,929 --> 01:05:57,623
The stalinist epoch...
1054
01:05:57,847 --> 01:06:01,015
reveals the ultimate reality
of the bureaucracy:
1055
01:06:01,267 --> 01:06:04,426
it is the continuation of the
power of the economy,
1056
01:06:04,671 --> 01:06:08,413
the salvaging of the essential
of commodity society,
1057
01:06:08,601 --> 01:06:10,985
that is, labor as commodity.
1058
01:06:11,284 --> 01:06:13,787
This is the proof of the
independent economy...
1059
01:06:14,021 --> 01:06:15,617
which dominates society...
1060
01:06:15,805 --> 01:06:18,315
to the point of recreating
for its own ends...
1061
01:06:18,452 --> 01:06:21,386
the class domination
necessary to it:
1062
01:06:22,009 --> 01:06:24,402
that is, the bourgeoisie...
1063
01:06:24,589 --> 01:06:27,382
created an autonomous
power which...
1064
01:06:27,586 --> 01:06:29,792
as long as this
autonomy subsists,
1065
01:06:29,923 --> 01:06:32,896
can even do without
a bourgeoisie.
1066
01:06:33,343 --> 01:06:35,829
Totalitarian bureaucracy
is not...
1067
01:06:35,977 --> 01:06:38,567
"the last property-owning
class in history"...
1068
01:06:38,698 --> 01:06:40,603
in Bruno Rizzi's sense,
1069
01:06:40,815 --> 01:06:44,145
but only a substitute
ruling class...
1070
01:06:44,301 --> 01:06:46,452
for the commodity
economy.
1071
01:06:46,786 --> 01:06:49,402
Faltering capitalist
ownership...
1072
01:06:49,583 --> 01:06:54,182
is replaced by a simplified,
less diversified by-product,
1073
01:06:54,421 --> 01:06:59,024
concentrated in the collective
ownership of the bureaucratic class.
1074
01:06:59,416 --> 01:07:02,359
This underdeveloped
form of ruling class...
1075
01:07:02,499 --> 01:07:05,804
is also the expression of the
economic underdevelopment;
1076
01:07:05,957 --> 01:07:09,959
its only perspective is the
delay in this development...
1077
01:07:10,112 --> 01:07:12,530
in certain regions
of the world.
1078
01:07:12,802 --> 01:07:14,464
It is the worker's party,
1079
01:07:14,601 --> 01:07:18,085
organized according to the
bourgeois model of separation,
1080
01:07:18,296 --> 01:07:21,360
which furnished the
hierarchical-statist cadre...
1081
01:07:21,479 --> 01:07:25,277
for this supplementary edition
of the ruling class.
1082
01:07:29,065 --> 01:07:32,505
The ideological-totalitarian
class in power...
1083
01:07:32,670 --> 01:07:35,161
is the power of a world
turned upside down:
1084
01:07:35,314 --> 01:07:36,484
the stronger it is,
1085
01:07:36,615 --> 01:07:39,054
the more it asserts
it does not exist,
1086
01:07:39,274 --> 01:07:43,174
and its power serves it foremost
to assert its non-existence.
1087
01:07:43,405 --> 01:07:45,619
It is modest on
this single point,
1088
01:07:45,808 --> 01:07:49,615
for its official non-existence
must also coincide...
1089
01:07:49,778 --> 01:07:53,354
with the nec plus ultra of
historical development,
1090
01:07:53,501 --> 01:07:57,883
which is due simultaneously
to its infallible leadership.
1091
01:07:58,222 --> 01:07:59,611
Spread out everywhere,
1092
01:07:59,774 --> 01:08:04,187
bureaucracy should be the
invisible class for consciousness,
1093
01:08:04,409 --> 01:08:08,496
so that all of social life
becomes insane.
1094
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:12,199
The social organization
of the absolute lie...
1095
01:08:12,489 --> 01:08:16,065
devolves from this
fundamental contradiction.
1096
01:08:16,406 --> 01:08:20,816
The higher we ascend in this
bureaucracy of intelligence,
1097
01:08:21,089 --> 01:08:24,963
the more wondrous are the
pates that we encounter.
1098
01:08:25,235 --> 01:08:29,714
-Marx, Remarks on the Recent Rulings
by the Prussian Board of Censors
1099
01:08:30,732 --> 01:08:35,735
Stalinism was the reign of terror
within the bureaucratic class itself.
1100
01:08:36,218 --> 01:08:39,606
Terrorism which is the foundation
of the power of this class...
1101
01:08:39,776 --> 01:08:41,666
must also strike
this class,
1102
01:08:41,886 --> 01:08:44,813
for it has no juridical
guarantee,
1103
01:08:45,010 --> 01:08:48,754
no recognized existence
as the class of ownership,
1104
01:08:48,930 --> 01:08:51,943
that it could extend to
each of its members.
1105
01:08:52,194 --> 01:08:55,112
Its real ownership
is dissimulated,
1106
01:08:55,286 --> 01:08:57,376
and it came
to ownership...
1107
01:08:57,566 --> 01:09:00,287
only by the route of
false consciousness.
1108
01:09:00,478 --> 01:09:04,109
False consciousness maintains
its absolute power...
1109
01:09:04,296 --> 01:09:06,105
only by absolute terror,
1110
01:09:06,270 --> 01:09:09,302
where any true motivation
is ultimately lost.
1111
01:09:09,867 --> 01:09:12,751
The members of the
bureaucratic class in power...
1112
01:09:12,927 --> 01:09:15,631
have no right of possession
over society,
1113
01:09:15,767 --> 01:09:17,068
except collectively,
1114
01:09:17,256 --> 01:09:20,968
as participants in
a fundamental lie:
1115
01:09:21,227 --> 01:09:23,816
they must play the role
of the proletariat...
1116
01:09:23,969 --> 01:09:26,132
directing a socialist
society;
1117
01:09:26,311 --> 01:09:31,166
they must be actors faithful to
the text of ideological infidelity.
1118
01:09:32,109 --> 01:09:34,391
But effective participation...
1119
01:09:34,562 --> 01:09:36,316
in this deceptive entity...
1120
01:09:36,470 --> 01:09:40,507
requires this participation
be recognized as truthful.
1121
01:09:41,089 --> 01:09:45,435
No bureaucrat can individually
maintain his right to power,
1122
01:09:45,682 --> 01:09:48,307
for to prove he is a
socialist proletarian...
1123
01:09:48,405 --> 01:09:52,016
would be to show himself as
the opposite of a bureaucrat;
1124
01:09:52,177 --> 01:09:55,168
and to prove he is a
bureaucrat is impossible,
1125
01:09:55,377 --> 01:09:59,549
since the official truth of the
bureaucracy is not to be.
1126
01:09:59,918 --> 01:10:03,695
In this way, each bureaucrat
is absolutely dependent...
1127
01:10:03,945 --> 01:10:06,871
upon a central
guarantee by ideology,
1128
01:10:07,062 --> 01:10:09,963
which recognizes a
collective participation...
1129
01:10:10,134 --> 01:10:11,933
in its "socialist power"...
1130
01:10:12,121 --> 01:10:15,441
by all bureaucrats it
does not annihilate.
1131
01:10:15,965 --> 01:10:19,745
If the bureaucrats taken as a
group decide upon everything,
1132
01:10:19,893 --> 01:10:22,121
the coherence of their
own class...
1133
01:10:22,258 --> 01:10:24,981
can be assured only
by the concentration...
1134
01:10:25,148 --> 01:10:28,673
of their terrorist power
in a single person.
1135
01:10:29,015 --> 01:10:30,336
In this person...
1136
01:10:30,491 --> 01:10:33,851
resides the only practical
truth of the lie in power:
1137
01:10:34,092 --> 01:10:38,942
the indisputable fixing of its
constantly corrected frontier.
1138
01:10:39,570 --> 01:10:41,792
Stalin decides with
no possible appeal...
1139
01:10:41,979 --> 01:10:44,279
who finally is a propertied
bureaucrat,
1140
01:10:44,499 --> 01:10:47,811
that is to say, who is to be
called "proletarian in power",
1141
01:10:47,998 --> 01:10:51,847
or else "traitor in the pay of
the Mikado and Wall Street."
1142
01:10:52,554 --> 01:10:54,367
Bureaucratic atoms...
1143
01:10:54,497 --> 01:10:56,924
find the common essence
of their right,
1144
01:10:57,023 --> 01:10:59,369
only in the person
of Stalin.
1145
01:10:59,591 --> 01:11:01,953
Stalin is this sovereign
of the world,
1146
01:11:02,121 --> 01:11:05,332
who knows himself in this way
to be the absolute person,
1147
01:11:05,503 --> 01:11:09,334
for whose consciousness
there exists no higher spirit.
1148
01:11:09,710 --> 01:11:12,372
The sovereign of the world
possesses the effective...
1149
01:11:12,542 --> 01:11:14,221
consciousness of
what he is:
1150
01:11:14,408 --> 01:11:17,388
-the universal power
of effectivity-
1151
01:11:17,641 --> 01:11:21,042
in the destructive violence
that he exercises against...
1152
01:11:21,213 --> 01:11:24,585
the Self of his subjects
who form a contrast for him.
1153
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:27,614
Just as he is the power
which defines...
1154
01:11:27,860 --> 01:11:29,692
the terrain of domination,
1155
01:11:29,837 --> 01:11:33,049
he is also "the power
ravaging this terrain."
1156
01:12:04,309 --> 01:12:05,421
Comrades!
1157
01:12:05,605 --> 01:12:07,754
Alarming news.
1158
01:12:07,911 --> 01:12:10,551
The Reichstag is
in flames.
1159
01:12:13,651 --> 01:12:16,382
Fascist Radio claims...
1160
01:12:16,517 --> 01:12:20,401
that Communists started
the Reichstag fire.
1161
01:12:22,451 --> 01:12:27,424
A monstrous provocation
by the Nazi government.
1162
01:12:31,718 --> 01:12:33,386
The meeting is over.
1163
01:12:42,610 --> 01:12:45,198
They want to outlaw
our party...
1164
01:12:45,420 --> 01:12:48,106
to choke off the voice
of the working class.
1165
01:12:51,641 --> 01:12:54,955
As long as there are
communists in Germany...
1166
01:12:56,871 --> 01:13:00,873
the fight against
Hitler will never end.
1167
01:13:17,638 --> 01:13:20,447
...fight for peace
among all peoples...
1168
01:13:20,652 --> 01:13:24,401
...for Hitler, comrades,
Hitler is war!
1169
01:13:35,938 --> 01:13:40,093
There is a valley in Spain
called Jarama.
1170
01:13:41,779 --> 01:13:46,428
It's a place that we
all know too well.
1171
01:13:48,156 --> 01:13:52,652
For 'tis there that we
wasted our manhood.
1172
01:13:53,852 --> 01:13:57,394
And most of our
old age as well.
1173
01:15:32,715 --> 01:15:36,946
This social peace,
reestablished at great cost...
1174
01:15:37,316 --> 01:15:41,404
had lasted but a few years
when there appeared,
1175
01:15:41,710 --> 01:15:45,644
in order to announce its end,
those who were to enter...
1176
01:15:45,839 --> 01:15:49,382
the history of crime under
the name of "Situationists".
1177
01:15:49,856 --> 01:15:53,945
When the proletariat discovers
that its own exteriorized force...
1178
01:15:54,119 --> 01:15:58,105
conspires in the permanent
reinforcement of capitalist society,
1179
01:15:58,326 --> 01:16:01,306
no longer just in
the form of labor,
1180
01:16:01,478 --> 01:16:03,758
but also in the form
of the unions,
1181
01:16:03,931 --> 01:16:06,638
of the parties or
of the state power...
1182
01:16:06,873 --> 01:16:09,474
that it had constituted
in order to emancipate...
1183
01:16:09,730 --> 01:16:13,348
itself, it discovers as well by
concrete historical experience...
1184
01:16:13,533 --> 01:16:16,128
that it is the class
totally inimical...
1185
01:16:16,437 --> 01:16:18,856
to all fixed exteriorization...
1186
01:16:19,026 --> 01:16:21,777
and to all specialization
of power.
1187
01:16:22,037 --> 01:16:27,008
It carries the revolution which
can leave nothing outside itself,
1188
01:16:27,476 --> 01:16:30,417
the requirement of the
permanent domination...
1189
01:16:30,622 --> 01:16:32,349
of the present
over the past,
1190
01:16:32,553 --> 01:16:35,243
and the total critique
of separation;
1191
01:16:35,544 --> 01:16:39,785
and it must find the adequate
form in action of this.
1192
01:16:40,235 --> 01:16:44,254
No quantitative improvement
of its poverty,
1193
01:16:44,460 --> 01:16:47,445
no illusion of hierarchical
integration,
1194
01:16:47,610 --> 01:16:50,949
is a durable remedy
for its dissatisfaction...
1195
01:16:51,194 --> 01:16:54,723
for the proletariat cannot
truly recognize itself...
1196
01:16:54,826 --> 01:16:57,559
in a particular wrong which
it might have suffered,
1197
01:16:57,739 --> 01:17:01,310
nor for that matter in the
redress of a particular wrong,
1198
01:17:01,555 --> 01:17:03,717
nor of a great number
of these wrongs,
1199
01:17:03,872 --> 01:17:06,333
but only in the
absolute wrong...
1200
01:17:06,497 --> 01:17:09,486
of being relegated to
the margins of life.
1201
01:17:25,633 --> 01:17:29,544
Comrades: the Sud-Aviation
factory at Nantes having been...
1202
01:17:29,762 --> 01:17:33,509
occupied for two days by the
workers and the students...
1203
01:17:33,705 --> 01:17:37,281
of that city, the movement
extending today to various...
1204
01:17:37,468 --> 01:17:40,704
factories [N.M.P.P. Paris,
Renault- Cleon and others]
1205
01:17:40,858 --> 01:17:44,379
the Occupation Committee of the
Sorbonne calls for the immediate...
1206
01:17:44,584 --> 01:17:48,357
occupation of all factories in France
and the formation of workers councils.
1207
01:17:48,487 --> 01:17:52,122
Comrades, broadcast and reproduce
this call as quickly as possible.
1208
01:17:52,310 --> 01:17:54,949
Sorbonne, May 16, 15:00
1209
01:17:56,755 --> 01:18:00,416
Occupation of the factories.
Workers Councils.
1210
01:18:22,780 --> 01:18:25,862
And the month of May
will never return,
1211
01:18:26,016 --> 01:18:29,047
from today until the
end of the world...
1212
01:18:29,337 --> 01:18:32,496
of the spectacle, without
us being remembered...
1213
01:18:43,783 --> 01:18:47,810
Comrades! Humanity of will only
be happy on the day when the...
1214
01:19:10,795 --> 01:19:14,730
Down with spectacular
commodity society!
1215
01:19:15,882 --> 01:19:19,424
Don't flatter yourself that
they have no such plan,
1216
01:19:19,578 --> 01:19:23,192
they must of necessity have
one; and if chance willed them...
1217
01:19:23,345 --> 01:19:27,165
not to have formed one,
the very force of things...
1218
01:19:27,336 --> 01:19:31,013
would lead them to one;
conquest engenders conquest,
1219
01:19:31,177 --> 01:19:34,779
and victory gives the
thirst for victory.
1220
01:19:34,966 --> 01:19:37,963
Machivaelli, Letter
to Francesco Vetton
1221
01:19:52,858 --> 01:19:57,166
Run quickly, comrade,
the old world is behind you!
1222
01:20:00,240 --> 01:20:04,055
From February 25th,
a thousand strange systems...
1223
01:20:04,344 --> 01:20:07,784
impetuously sallied forth from
the spirit of the innovators...
1224
01:20:07,954 --> 01:20:11,572
and spread through the
troubled spirit of the masses...
1225
01:20:11,794 --> 01:20:15,251
It seemed that from the shock
of the revolution, society had...
1226
01:20:15,464 --> 01:20:19,040
been reduced to dust and that
a competition had opened...
1227
01:20:19,228 --> 01:20:22,804
to determine the new form
to be given to the edifice...
1228
01:20:22,973 --> 01:20:26,618
to be built in its place; each
one proposed his plan,
1229
01:20:26,822 --> 01:20:30,091
this one produced it in the
newspapers, that one in posters...
1230
01:20:30,381 --> 01:20:33,982
that quickly covered the walls;
another in the open air by means...
1231
01:20:34,204 --> 01:20:38,206
of spoken words. One pretended
to destroy inequality of fortunes,
1232
01:20:38,410 --> 01:20:42,352
another the inequality of
intelligence, a third undertook...
1233
01:20:42,505 --> 01:20:46,243
to level the most ancient of
inequalities, that of man and woman;
1234
01:20:46,452 --> 01:20:50,010
they indicated specific remedies
for poverty and remedies for this...
1235
01:20:50,291 --> 01:20:54,021
evil of labor which has tormented
humanity as long as it has existed.
1236
01:20:54,362 --> 01:20:56,949
Tocqueville, Memoirs.
1237
01:21:11,298 --> 01:21:14,433
But neither wood
nor fire...
1238
01:21:14,603 --> 01:21:17,471
found appeasement,
1239
01:21:17,763 --> 01:21:20,249
[?]nor satisfaction nor rest,[?]
1240
01:21:20,488 --> 01:21:23,365
in any heat,
small or great,
1241
01:21:23,715 --> 01:21:26,098
nor in any semblance,
1242
01:21:26,286 --> 01:21:28,074
until fire...
1243
01:21:28,406 --> 01:21:31,539
was made one with wood...
1244
01:21:31,743 --> 01:21:35,201
and communicated
to it its very nature...
1245
01:21:48,820 --> 01:21:52,498
But then it happens that they
are accused of vandalism...
1246
01:21:52,693 --> 01:21:56,142
and that their disrespect for
the machine is blamed and...
1247
01:21:56,389 --> 01:22:00,340
stigmatized. These critiques
would be founded if there were...
1248
01:22:00,630 --> 01:22:04,359
on the part of the workers a
systematic will to deterioration,
1249
01:22:04,632 --> 01:22:08,548
with no concern for a goal.
However, this is not the case.
1250
01:22:08,838 --> 01:22:12,392
If the workers attack the machines
it is not for pleasure or for casual...
1251
01:22:12,563 --> 01:22:16,062
amusement it is because an
imperious necessity...
1252
01:22:16,215 --> 01:22:18,855
obliges them to do so.
Emile Pouget, Sabotage
1253
01:22:19,012 --> 01:22:21,128
By the new signs of negation,
1254
01:22:21,373 --> 01:22:25,102
misunderstood and falsified by
the management of the spectacle,
1255
01:22:25,271 --> 01:22:28,904
that are multiplying in the most
economically advanced countries,
1256
01:22:29,124 --> 01:22:31,241
one may already draw
the conclusion that...
1257
01:22:31,430 --> 01:22:33,662
a new epoch
has opened:
1258
01:22:33,963 --> 01:22:37,653
after the first attempt
at worker subversion,
1259
01:22:37,840 --> 01:22:41,706
it is now capitalist abundance
which has failed.
1260
01:22:42,091 --> 01:22:45,512
When the anti-union struggles
of western workers...
1261
01:22:45,665 --> 01:22:48,168
are repressed first
by the unions,
1262
01:22:48,366 --> 01:22:50,732
and when rebellious
currents of youth...
1263
01:22:50,917 --> 01:22:53,804
launch a first formless
protest,
1264
01:22:53,984 --> 01:22:55,368
in which, however,
1265
01:22:55,521 --> 01:22:58,229
the refusal of the old
specialized politics,
1266
01:22:58,396 --> 01:23:01,973
of art, of daily life, is
immediately implicated,
1267
01:23:02,161 --> 01:23:05,601
it's there that may be found
the two faces of a new...
1268
01:23:05,703 --> 01:23:09,181
spontaneous struggle which
begins with a criminal aspect.
1269
01:23:09,354 --> 01:23:11,598
These are the
advance signs...
1270
01:23:11,752 --> 01:23:16,231
of the second proletarian
assault against class society.
1271
01:24:07,932 --> 01:24:11,491
Once more Poland is covered
in a bloody winding sheet...
1272
01:24:11,746 --> 01:24:15,620
and we have remained
impotent spectators.
1273
01:24:15,841 --> 01:24:19,544
Declaration of French workers
at the meeting of the foundation...
1274
01:24:19,766 --> 01:24:23,393
of the Internationale,
September 28, 1864
1275
01:24:28,165 --> 01:24:30,056
When the ever deepening...
1276
01:24:30,140 --> 01:24:33,331
realization of capitalist
alienation at all levels,
1277
01:24:33,488 --> 01:24:36,309
rendering ever more
difficult for workers...
1278
01:24:36,457 --> 01:24:39,483
the recognition and naming
of their own property,
1279
01:24:39,671 --> 01:24:42,005
leaves them with
the alternative of...
1280
01:24:42,141 --> 01:24:44,814
refusing the totality of
their misery or nothing,
1281
01:24:45,035 --> 01:24:49,181
the revolutionary organization
must know that it can no longer...
1282
01:24:49,334 --> 01:24:53,132
combat alienation with
alienated means.
1283
01:24:54,843 --> 01:24:58,134
The very development
of class society...
1284
01:24:58,346 --> 01:25:01,676
to the point of the spectacular
organization of non-life...
1285
01:25:01,881 --> 01:25:05,802
thus leads the revolutionary
project to become visibly...
1286
01:25:05,971 --> 01:25:09,139
what it was already
essentially.
1287
01:25:09,712 --> 01:25:11,598
Revolutionary theory...
1288
01:25:11,754 --> 01:25:15,949
is now the enemy of all
revolutionary ideology,
1289
01:25:16,166 --> 01:25:18,053
and knows that it is.
1290
01:25:20,506 --> 01:25:23,622
Let us consider, however,
1291
01:25:24,167 --> 01:25:28,408
the content of this
experience in its entirety:
1292
01:25:28,918 --> 01:25:32,214
this content is work
which disappears...
1293
01:25:32,606 --> 01:25:36,454
The fact of disappearing
is also effectively real,
1294
01:25:36,743 --> 01:25:41,170
and is attached to the work and
itself disappears with the latter;
1295
01:25:42,234 --> 01:25:47,054
[?]the negative goes under with the
positive, of which it is the negation.[?]
1296
01:25:51,113 --> 01:25:55,762
It would obviously be very
convenient to make history...
1297
01:25:56,034 --> 01:26:00,156
if one had only to engage in
struggle under unerringly...
1298
01:26:00,444 --> 01:26:04,881
favorable circumstances.
To completely destroy this society,
1299
01:26:05,136 --> 01:26:09,087
it is clearly necessary to be
ready to launch against it,
1300
01:26:09,308 --> 01:26:12,680
ten times in succession or more,
assaults of an importance...
1301
01:26:12,969 --> 01:26:16,358
comparable to that of May 1968;
and to hold as inevitable...
1302
01:26:16,570 --> 01:26:20,487
inconveniences a certain number
of defeats and civil wars.
1303
01:26:20,726 --> 01:26:24,498
The goals which count in
universal history must be....
1304
01:26:24,668 --> 01:26:28,501
affirmed with energy
and will.
1305
01:26:39,392 --> 01:26:40,755
7th Michigan!
1306
01:26:43,054 --> 01:26:44,331
Forward, ho!
1307
01:26:48,468 --> 01:26:49,457
Trot, ho!
1308
01:26:53,619 --> 01:26:54,845
Gallop, ho!
1309
01:26:56,106 --> 01:26:57,162
Charge!
1310
01:28:38,395 --> 01:28:41,137
5th and 6th Michigan!
Forward, ho!
1311
01:28:48,321 --> 01:28:49,530
Trot, ho!
1312
01:28:52,459 --> 01:28:53,719
Gallop, ho!
1313
01:28:56,036 --> 01:28:57,099
Charge!
1314
01:29:45,037 --> 01:29:48,784
Fight, you Wolverines!
1st Michigan, charge!
1315
01:30:14,686 --> 01:30:18,604
What on the contrary constitutes
the merit of our theory,
1316
01:30:18,824 --> 01:30:22,767
is not the fact of its having
a correct idea, but of having...
1317
01:30:22,937 --> 01:30:27,007
been naturally led to conceive
this idea. In sum, one cannot...
1318
01:30:27,262 --> 01:30:31,128
reiterate it too strongly that
here -as in the entire domain...
1319
01:30:31,357 --> 01:30:35,299
of praxis- theory is there much
more to educate the practitioner,
1320
01:30:35,469 --> 01:30:39,411
to give him a sense of judgment,
then to serve him as an...
1321
01:30:39,735 --> 01:30:43,932
indispensable support at every
step that the accomplishment...
1322
01:30:44,205 --> 01:30:49,041
of this task necessitates.
Clausewitz, The Campaign of 1814
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