"Like lost children we live our unfinshed adventures."
October 17, 2014 1:30 AM Subscribe
Excerpts from Guy Debord’s “The Muppets.” "Though the name 'Guy Debord' is now synonymous with two things: Situationist philosophy and The Muppets, this pairing of passions was not as easily reconciled as you might think. 'I had to fight really hard not to be pigeon-holed as a Marxist theorist in the puppeteering community,' Debord once said. 'They told me 'Kids don't want to hear about how the concrete life of everyone has been degraded to a speculative universe, Guy.' I said 'How about we let the children decide that?' Decide they did..." [Previously, Via]
Did he design his muppets as he did the cover of his Mémoires, made of sandpaper so that in their own interactions with each other they would gradually destroy their own created visages?
posted by adoarns at 3:33 AM on October 17, 2014 [4 favorites]
posted by adoarns at 3:33 AM on October 17, 2014 [4 favorites]
"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always." --Gonzo
This is pretty great.
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:42 AM on October 17, 2014 [5 favorites]
This is pretty great.
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:42 AM on October 17, 2014 [5 favorites]
For some reason I needed this post this morning. Thank you.
posted by grimjeer at 4:15 AM on October 17, 2014
posted by grimjeer at 4:15 AM on October 17, 2014
Bert's totally a Marxist.
posted by ursus_comiter at 6:20 AM on October 17, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by ursus_comiter at 6:20 AM on October 17, 2014 [1 favorite]
Does not have to be able to do the pigeon, sammyo, but will inevitably control the means of doing the pigeon.
posted by scruss at 6:24 AM on October 17, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by scruss at 6:24 AM on October 17, 2014 [2 favorites]
Bert is clearly a right-wing, authoritarian capitalist, ursus_comiter. Why else would he be so obsessed with protecting his bottlecap collection? So insistent that Ernie stop breaking the rules and go to bed on time?
posted by BlueJae at 6:48 AM on October 17, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by BlueJae at 6:48 AM on October 17, 2014 [2 favorites]
i would tune in to a lenin versus trotsky-style muppet showdown where the loser flees to mexico and big bird kills him with an axe.
posted by bruce at 6:51 AM on October 17, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by bruce at 6:51 AM on October 17, 2014 [1 favorite]
I'm pretty sure this has a deep, significant interpretation with respect to the spectacle, but I have no idea what it is.
We consume Guy DeBord's Muppets, and in doing so we are alienated. However, we are also unified, but only ever unified in our alienation.
posted by entropone at 7:12 AM on October 17, 2014
We consume Guy DeBord's Muppets, and in doing so we are alienated. However, we are also unified, but only ever unified in our alienation.
posted by entropone at 7:12 AM on October 17, 2014
Needs Swedish Chef: "Debord, Guy, borgi, borgi, borgi"
posted by Renoroc at 7:19 AM on October 17, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by Renoroc at 7:19 AM on October 17, 2014 [3 favorites]
Thank you. This is what I come here for.
posted by benito.strauss at 7:20 AM on October 17, 2014
posted by benito.strauss at 7:20 AM on October 17, 2014
Still waiting on the three screens wall of text justifying the marxi....something, I for one do not have the attention span for any diatribe longer than a Che tee shirt.
posted by sammyo at 7:42 AM on October 17, 2014
posted by sammyo at 7:42 AM on October 17, 2014
This is not bad but I preferred Ayn Rand's Devil Wears Prada.
posted by bukvich at 8:02 AM on October 17, 2014
posted by bukvich at 8:02 AM on October 17, 2014
How To Talk To Babies About Gender Theory
How To Talk To Babies About Marxist Theory
How To Talk To Babies About Semiotics
posted by homunculus at 9:30 AM on October 17, 2014 [5 favorites]
How To Talk To Babies About Marxist Theory
How To Talk To Babies About Semiotics
posted by homunculus at 9:30 AM on October 17, 2014 [5 favorites]
the talk to babies series is beautiful, thank you.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 3:14 PM on October 17, 2014
posted by vibratory manner of working at 3:14 PM on October 17, 2014
Yeah, those are great. The series would be worth a new post if Mallory Ortberg keeps doing them.
posted by homunculus at 8:25 PM on October 17, 2014
posted by homunculus at 8:25 PM on October 17, 2014
I disapprove of this intensely.
Terrible translation.
posted by debord at 4:12 AM on October 19, 2014 [1 favorite]
Terrible translation.
posted by debord at 4:12 AM on October 19, 2014 [1 favorite]
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