Out of curiosity, have you ever publicly referred to the Society of the Spectacle more than 3 months ago? For whatever reason, I am seeing all sorts of references all over the internet to Debord and SotS in the past couple months, and I'm just trying to track down why this is happening. I don't think this is a yellow car phenomenon because I've been into Situationism for the past 20 years and am fairly attuned to references to it that I stumble across.

I think the "Contain" podcast (https://podbay.fm/p/contain-podcast) got me into it originally. It has a lot of guests who reference stuff like "commodity fetishism" and I just started looking that up to figure out what they were talking about and this eventually led to Debord.

As an aside, The "Contain" podcast is great. Lots of interviews with lots of unusual intellectual people.

Debord has been a well known figure in far right circles for a while now

Since you seem to be an expert on this kind of stuff, does the far left read the far right ever? If so, which authors?

Couldn't tell ya, but I would think so.

This website never fails to amuse me…

What is the intention of this comment? That Debord is “far right” or a reactionary? That people who read him are? That it’s interesting that a Marxist philosopher is read by reactionaries?

Just giving context to why Debord is apart of the zeitgeist these days. And Society and the Spectacle is certainly a reactionary text; no surprise it is read by other reactionaries.

An explanation for recent popularity. I was confused out of my mind when the entire country started talking about Saul Alinsky all of a sudden, until I heard that an alcoholic right-wing crackpot was screaming about him while drawing on a blackboard nightly on television.

This happens a lot if you read books that aren't bestsellers. A thing that for decades you couldn't find a person who had heard of it suddenly is in television commercials and image macros because a character mentioned it in a movie, or some twitch streamer decided to rail about it for an hour, and it caught fire.

I've had the exact opposite experience FWIW - it seemed to be everywhere maybe 6-12 months ago and then I stopped hearing about it recently.

Through that lens she’s more real than most. I loved his idea that JFK eulogized his own funeral.

Does that quote actually mean anything, though?