What Reena really wanted to know was why – in a night club, for example – do we chose, always and above all, that nothing happens?”

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”

The key to survival will lay in female hands.

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem looks back and ahead in the light of the spectacle of aesthetic capitalism, which has become even more unfettered since Debord’s death.