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The destruction of Paris is only one striking example of the fatal illness that is currently wiping out all the major cities, and that illness is in turn only one of the numerous symptoms of the material decay of this society. But Paris had more to lose than any other. Bliss it was to be young in this city when for the last time it glowed with so intense a flame.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
I shall thus limit myself to a few words to announce that, whatever others may say about it, Paris no longer exists.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
Bliss it was to be young in this city when for the last time it glowed with so intense a flame.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
The center of Paris is radically restructured by the organization of automobile traffic: the quays transformed into highways, Place Dauphine into an underground parking garage.
Internationale situationniste #9
But from any standpoint other than that of facilitating police control, Haussmann’s Paris is a city built by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Les Lèvres nues #6