MALCOLM MCLAREN FUNERAL CORTEGE

"It is in these conditions that a parodic end of the division of labour suddenly appears, with carnivalesque gaiety, all the more welcome because it coincides with the generalised disappearance of all true competence. A financier can be a singer, a lawyer a police spy, a baker can parade his literary tastes, an actor can be president, a chef can philosophise on the movements of baking as if they were landmarks in universal history. Each can join the spectacle, in order publicly to adopt, or sometimes secretly practice, an entirely different activity from whatever speciality first made their name. Where the possession of "mediatic status" has acquired infinitely more importance than the value of anything one might actually be capable of doing, it is normal for this status to be easily transferable and to confer the right to shine in the same fashion to anyone anywhere. Most often these accelerated media particles pursue their simple orbit of statutorily guaranteed admiration. But it happens that the mediatic transition provides the cover for many enterprises, officially independent but in fact secretly linked by various ad hoc networks. With the result that occasionally the social division of labour, along with the easily foreseeable solidarity of its use, reappears in quite new forms: for example, one can now publish a novel in order to arrange an assassination. Such picturesque examples also go to show that one should never trust someone because of their job.

But the highest ambition of the integrated spectacular is still that the secret agents become revolutionaries, and that the revolutionaries become secret agents."

Guy Debord. "Commentaries on The Society of The Spectacle". 1988.

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[ChannonFodder]

Excellent video thanks

was that the kings road?

[xwsftassell]

@ChannonFodder No. Camden Town.

[2ivanhoe]

haha absolute nonsense. the only circular argument is yours as it has no point.

Look I like Malcolm, the way he has strung all you pseudo intellectuals along all these years with his svengali artisan mind games is hilarious. Like I said originally, It's a shame his actual achievements and input can't now be celebrated. But that would mean the yawning gullibility of all those so eager to theorise and intellectualise being unveiled at last, and that would never do, would it?

[xwsftassell]

Ah-hah, blown it. That's not what you said @ all. It's as I said all along, it's you who's been strung along. You're obsessed Mr 2ivanhoe. Pick out any random McLaren funeral vid, & there you are giving it your best parodic Alf Garnett largings for all to see "The only thing he invented was bleeding bondage trahsers!!!" You're like a fig-box of Malcom McLaren's imagination made video flesh, so you are sir.

[2ivanhoe]

@xwsftassell "What a shame the reality of Mclaren's achievement and input cant be celebrated instead of the constant perpetuating of the "svengali, puppet master, creator, inventor" bullshit myth."

read and weep puppet, you can read cant you?

is that the sound of barrels being scraped? decide what your point is exactly and let me know.

[xwsftassell]

What about the Rotten eulogies? You're all over the place, dad.

My point is, as it says in the top bit...

"The highest ambition of the integrated spectacular is still; that the secret agents become revolutionaries and that the revolutionaries become secret agents."

[pixiegreensparkles]

Thankyou so much for introducing me to the ideas of Guy Debord..Malcolm got his ideas from the philosophies of french anarchy!

[GriefTourist]

i feel sick

all the muppets that live forever and god takes malcy

[mekissingyou]

what were them leaflets they were throwing out of the double decker?

[aeltzis88]

now the queen is relieved!!!

[malcstag]

nice stretched jags

[ssballs]

What a wqay to go....Buffalo Gals in a dubble decker.....See ya in hell MM.

[futuristfood]

omg.