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Raoul Vaneigem
Ideally a book...
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
People without imagination...
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all...
Our task is...
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
Source: The Revolution of...
Daily life is...
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance...
The organization controlling...
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us...
Never before has...
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned...
Everything has been...
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only...
Purchasing power is...
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Source: The Revolution of Everyday...
As poverty has...
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of...
In the kingdom...
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in...
People who talk...
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without...
Who wants a...
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of...
There are more...
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
Production and consumption...
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty;...
Work to survive,...
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
The eruption of...
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize...
In the twentieth...
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized,...
The same people...
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking,...
In an industrial...
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of...
To be rich...
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
Source:...