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Raoul Vaneigem

Raoul Vaneigem (Dutch pronunciation: [ra??ul v?n??i???m]; born 1934) is a Belgian writer. He was born in Lessines (Hainaut, Belgium). After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) from 1952 to 1956, he participated in the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970. He currently resides in Belgium and is the father of four children.

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of ...

Work is the opposite of creativity.

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

Hope is the leash of submission.

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself ...

Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what ma ...

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tend ...

“We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our drea ...

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumptio ...

“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguin ...

“Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in str ...

“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life ...

“Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a ...

“People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to cultur ...