Vienet - Can Dialectics Break Bricks? / Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle
Rene Vienet was associated with the Situationists – an ultra-radical artistic/theoretical movement of the 50s and 60s. Vienet's Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973) appropriated a kung fu movie – a piece of capitalist culture – replacing its dialogue with fragments of Situationist theories, and refunctioning it as an allegory of the student unrest of the late 1960s, as well as the fate of Stalinism, with the film's good guys and bad guys renamed "revolutionaries" and "bureaucrats" respectively.
Guy Debord, the leader of the Situationists also transformed his theoretical magnum opus, The Society of the Spectacle (1968) into a film, montaging its text, as a voiceover, with a collage of fragments from the capitalist media his book critiques:
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