Raoul Vaneigem

Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#work #life

Daydreaming subverts the world. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#situationist-international #life

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#life

To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#art

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#been #confuses #create #desire #enemy

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#citizen #consumption #democratic #equality #fraternity

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#discover #his #ideally #order #own

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#our #rediscover #remake #task

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#been #life #mere #more #our

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#civilization #contempt #degree #drowned #felt