ILN EP 79: Situationism w/ Clara Blackstone

Pat was feeling spectacular, so Ben tags in a heavyweight for philosophical assistance. Comic, friend, and Dean of Philosophy at ACC, Clara Blackstone helps Ben explain the riotous philosophy of Situationism, founded by legendary French ashtray/Marxist theorist Guy Debord. Together, they drag Pat and themselves out of the bewitching and lurid world of the Spectacle, a Matrix-like world of hollow images that Late Capitalism has built for us to keep us complacent and consuming. Debord's bizarre program of inciting Marxist pranks like some class-struggle clown eventually led to France's biggest riots of the 20th Century in May of 1968. Sous les pavés, la plage!