Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Guy Debord wrote from a moment when the image was beginning to reorganise social life on an unprecedented scale. Published in 1967, The Society of the Spectacle remains one of the most incisive attempts to grasp this transformation.
More than half a century later, Debord's questions have lost none of their urgency.
Galerie Linger is a gallery of pictorial logic. We explore the edge Debord opens within the image. Across four sessions, we'll be learning from one of the twentieth century's most ambitious attempts to wrest everyday life from passivity, representation, and habit.
Wednesdays
01, 08, 22, 29 July
18:30–20:30
Galerie Linger – Art, Books & Press
Four sessions: €120
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Session 1 – Image Trap
In The Society of the Spectacle (1967), Debord teaches us to look twice. What first appears as spectacle reveals itself as a social relation.
Session 2 – Situation, breaking free.
In Report on the Construction of Situations (1957), Debord turns from diagnosis to practice. Against passive reception, he proposes situations capable of interrupting routine and reopening experience.
Session 3 – More World
In Theory of the Dérive (1956), drifting becomes a method. The familiar city reveals unexpected atmospheres, pathways, and possibilities.
Session 4 – Trends
In Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988), Debord extends his earlier analysis and follows the spectacle through its subsequent transformations.
The spectacle remains with us. So does the question of art.
SESSION HOST
Pawel Jankiewicz is a writer, curator, and researcher based in Berlin. He is the founder of Galerie Linger – Art, Books & Press, a gallery, bookshop, and discursive space devoted to the unfinished questions of the avant-garde.
A graduate of the University of Łódź's Faculty of Law, his early research explored artistic freedom, censorship, and art scandals. His work ranges from poetry and artistic research to studies of ruins, heritage, and cultural transformation. Together with Pablo Arboleda, he initiated the call for Ruin Studies in The Munich Social Science Review (MSSR), making the case for ruination as a field of inquiry in its own right.
*To sign up for this workshop, inquire at galerielinger@gmail.com
**All materials are included and will be provided upon registration