French Situationist (1931–1994) and author of The Society of the Spectacle. He enters the series only as a foil: Bob, reading Baudrillard, reports that Debord's spectacle — the world grasped as a movie or television show you watch — went obsolete once television folded into "the flow of the global theater," and notes that Baudrillard had edited Debord's Situationist newsletter around the May 1968 rebellion.
Across the dialogues
Enters as the superseded precursor — the Situationist whose "society of the spectacle" Baudrillard is said to have edited under and then pronounced obsolete
Bob relays Baudrillard's verdict on the Situationist — Debord's society of the spectacle, still a live frame in the late 1960s, is obsolete by the late 70s, when TV stops being a spectacle you watch and folds into the flow of the Global Theater, "the merging of the medium and the message."
"Guy Debord is obsolete."
Connections
Bob relays Baudrillard's verdict that Debord's spectacle was superseded once TV folded into the flow of the global theater.