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  Régis Debray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Regis Debray studied at the École Normale Supérieure and became "agrégé de philosophie" in 1965.
When Guevara was captured in Bolivia, 1967, Debray (also in Bolivia at the time) was imprisoned, convicted of having been part of Guevara's guerilla group and sentenced to 30 years in prison, but was released in 1970 after an international campaign for his release which included Jean-Paul Sartre and André Malraux.
Debray was recently in the news for his support of the French ban on headscarves for female Muslim students in public schools.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regis_Debray   (446 words)

  
 Szeman: On Debray
It is simply that Debray overstates the limits of these fields, as well as the unique quality of the practice that he refers to as "mediology," which he seems to see as the first to ever undertake questions of signification and communication from a materialist (though not Marxist) perspective.
For example, Debray suggests that "it is no longer the homily from the pulpit but the narration of the news on the screen and paper that presently provides for the translation of event into symbol and of peripeteia or mere incident into dramatic art" (25).
For Debray, the task of the mediologist is to identify the mediating, material "pathways" (technological and institutional processes and bodies) which constitute the "how" of symbolic transmission at a particular point in history, and which in turn produce (and are produced by) these other fields or spheres.
eserver.org /clogic/2-1/szeman.html   (3557 words)

  
 N A C L A
Regis Debray spent less than a month with Che in Bolivia, and it isn't certain that he was involved in any military confrontations or decision making.
On May 5, Guevara notes that according to the radio, "Debray is to be judged by a military court in Canviri as the alleged leader and organizer of the guerrillas." This is possibly the first instance of the inflation of the figure of Debray.
Debray's about-face, in which he goes from being an absolute ideological follower of the Cuban revolution to a swom enemy of all it represents, suggests that the man never held a well-considered position with respect to Cuba's revolution and socialist experience.
www.nacla.org /art_display.php?art=1798   (1906 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / Letter by Regis Debray to the French President Jacques Chirac
Debray's "Letter of a Voyager to the President of the Republic" was published on the front page and other pages of the Paris daily Le Mond in its today's issue.
Debray has devoted the essence of this letter to the analysis of a characteristic and frequently repeated and variable statement by President Chirac concerning Kosovo and Metohija and the war against Yugoslavia, refuting the views expressed in that statement, one after the other.
Debray does not deny the fact that masses of Kosovo Albanians have left the province, but he does not accept the interpretation of this as "ethnical cleansing" because they had received "orders" to do so at the beginning of the bombing.
www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-05/14/11815.html   (602 words)

  
 Europe Une Libre Grande
Régis Debray knows what a media event is. He himself was one when he combed through the Bolivian forests with Che Guevara in the 1960's – a man whose image became the icon of an era, the last available symbol of heroism and beauty in politics.
Debray is a representative of a line of research that one would call political iconography in Germany.
It is paradox, Debray said, that Europe is in the process of creating an image which corresponds to its own view of the United States: that of a country with no history based on materialism and consumerism.
www.argent.fr /debray.htm   (1025 words)

  
 Crisis Magazine
By the 1980s, however, Debray was writing eulogistically of the by-then late General de Gaulle, a biography that almost overnight became a major, highly esteemed best-seller in France.
These days, Debray is teaching philosophy at the University of Lyons III and is director of the European Institute of the History and Science of Religion at the École pratique des hautes études.
Debray also examines the role of women in religion, from the prehistoric through the Christian, and the need for womanly qualities in organized faith absent from that of the male of the species.
www.crisismagazine.com /julaug2004/book2.htm   (899 words)

  
 Regis (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johannes Regis, a Franco-Flemish composer of the Fifteenth century
Regis, a halfling in the Forgotten Realms fictional universe
Regis Corporation which owns Regis Hair Salons, the largest hair care chain in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regis   (179 words)

  
 God:an Itinerary by Régis Debray
Debray begins his biography of God by visiting the social, environmental and linguistic conditions which underpinned the birth of monotheism.
Even today, Debray observes, sociologists doing research on the population of the French Alps have concluded that there is a correlation between the altitude at which a person lives and the likelihood that they will be religious.
Debray observes that “it was writing alone which allowed the Hebrew people to be totally dispersed without losing its skin, memory and faith in the process.”
www.threemonkeysonline.com /review_god_an_itinerary_regis_debray.htm   (2125 words)

  
 Debray, Jules Régis - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
DEBRAY, JULES RÉGIS [Debray, Jules Régis], 1940-, French journalist and government official.
In Apr., 1967, Debray was captured in Bolivia while accompanying a guerrilla force under Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Tried by a military tribunal, he first insisted that he had accompanied the guerrillas only as a journalist, but then abandoned his defense after learning of the capture and death of Guevara.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Debray-J.asp   (189 words)

  
 God: An Itinerary
Debray shifts the spotlight away from the theological foreground and moves it backstage to the machinery of divine production by going back, from the Law, to the Tablets themselves and by scrutinizing Heaven at its most down-to-earth.
Debray contends that, in order to discover how God’s fire was transferred from the desert to the prairie, we ought first to bracket the philosophical questions and focus on empirical information.
Régis Debray teaches philosophy at the Université de Lyon-III and is director of the European Institute of the History and Science of Religion at the École pratique des hautes études.
www.versobooks.com /books/cdef/d-titles/debray_god.shtml   (396 words)

  
 Regis Debray
Debray’s credentials include 3 years imprisonment for fighting alongside Che Guevara in Bolivia.
Debray regards that the revolution will always only happen in a time of crisis.
Loss of votes, electgoral gains are seen as set- backs or advances.  It is further the definite determination of the kind of economic processes, that make the time of labour fixed by the imperative of accumulation.
www.generation-online.org /p/pdebray.htm   (389 words)

  
 Wired 3.01: Revolution in the Revolution
In the '60s, Regis Debray fought beside Che Guevara in Bolivia.
Twenty-seven years ago, French radical theoretician Régis Debray was sentenced by a Bolivian military tribunal to 30 years in jail.
Creating a discipline he calls "mediology," Debray has investigated how it is that abstract ideas can end up as world-changing ideologies.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.01/debray.html   (828 words)

  
 TIME.com: The Case of Regis Debray -- Sep. 1, 1967 -- Page 1
The third man was Jules Regis Debray, 26, a young French philosophy professor with sandy hair, wealthy par ents, and a circle of influential friends.
Debray, who had been with the guerrillas for several weeks, claimed that he was on an assignment for a Mexican magazine.
He has urged Regis to conduct his own defense—which Papa sees as "a dialogue between the philosopher and the sword." Mama Debray, meantime, caused a near riot by defending those nice guerrillas to an audience that included the survivors of some of the guerrillas' victims.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,837239,00.html   (684 words)

  
 Transmitting Culture; ; Régis Debray
"Regis Debray's work on mediology has made him one of the most significant figures on the French intellectual scene in the past two decades, and this work is an important contribution to and distillation of this work."
In a departure, Régis Debray redefines communication as the inescapable conditioning of civilization's meanings and messages by their technologies of transmission and lays the groundwork for a science of the transmission of cultural forms—in a word, mediology.
Régis Debray is professor of philosophy in the Faculté de Lettres at the Université de Lyon III.
www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023111/0231113447.HTM   (334 words)

  
 debrays_mysterious_ways - The Boston Globe
EVER SINCE THE French intellectual Régis Debray was jailed in Bolivia in 1967 for buddying up with Che Guevara, the US government has regarded him as “the most anti-American of anti-Americans.” Osama bin Laden might not agree, but that at least is the verdict of Jeffrey Mehlman, a distinguished professor of French at BU.
Given that swipe, Debray’s fellow soixante-huitards (’68ers) may be surprised by his latest French bestseller, which has just arrived in the United States in a translation by Mehlman.
Although Debray doesn’t believe in God, in the book’s introduction he claims to be fascinated by “the meandering advance of His complications,” andberates his supposedly cultivated peers for their biblical illiteracy.
www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/06/20/debrays_mysterious_ways?mode=PF   (394 words)

  
 Livio Maitan: Major Problems of the Latin-American Revolution (1967)
According to Debray, the Trotskyists are opposed to guerrilla warfare and are partisans of a strategy of self-defense, which, it is claimed, has also been adopted by a section of the movement in Colombia.
Regis Debray treats this paramount experience in the most offhand way: two lines on Blanco in the context of a gross falsification, allusions to Luis de la Puente Uceda brought in as part of a polemic against Huberman and Sweezy’s Monthly Review.
Although Debray raises many correct criticisms of the Latin-American Communist parties, he gives the impression that he believes they in fact observe the norms of democratic centralism and that they, at least in some circumstances, have been too democratic.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/writers/maitan/1967/05/debray.htm   (7279 words)

  
 Power Line: Regis Debray, adviser, editor -- and Communist guerilla
Regis Debray is a former Communist guerilla who fought in Bolivia with Che Guevara to spread the good works of Fidel Castro to South America.
He was captured in 1967 and sentenced by a Bolivian military tribunal to thirty years in prison.
Thanks to the agitation of Communists and useful idiots like Jean Paul Sartre, Debray was released from his Bolivian incarceration after three years.
www.powerlineblog.com /archives/002331.php   (189 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: REGIS DEBRAY
The American public may not be aware of the fact that these men have been held incommunicado by Bolivian military authorities since their arrest last April 20th in a guerrilla zone of Southeastern Bolivia.
Régis Debray, now 26, is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and an Agrégé de Philosophie, and is one of the most talented of the young French intellectuals.
Furthermore, according to Le Monde (May 10th), Debray was not arrested in an action involving guerrillas and government forces, but in a village where he was trying to obtain medicine.
www.nybooks.com /articles/12024   (608 words)

  
 Debray - Abstract interpretation and low-level code optimization
Xavier Blanchard Debray, soldier, was born in Epinel, France, in 1819.
Regis Debray is a former Communist guerilla who fought in Bolivia with Che Guevara to spread the
I april 67 arresteres Debray imidlertid af Barrientos-diktaturet i Bolivia, Eller som Debray også formulerer det: det er en teori om den «symbolske
boby.surferlight.com /?q=boby-debray   (234 words)

  
 Media Manifestos
Media Manifestos sums up over a decade of Régis Debray's research and writing on the evolution of systems of communication.
Determined not to lapse back into the empiricism and psychologism with which semiology broke, mediology is just as resolved to dispel the illusion of the signifier, slough off the scolasticism of the code, and recover the world — in all its mediatized materiality.
Régis Debray is the author of Teachers, Writers, Celebrities, Critique of Political Reason and Charles de Gaulle: Futurist of the Nation.
www.versobooks.com /books/cdef/d-titles/debray_manifesto.shtml   (97 words)

  
 Salvador Allende - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The conflict between the executive and legislature paralyzed initiatives from either side.
On June 29, 1973, a tank regiment under the command of Colonel Roberto Souper surrounded the presidential palace (La Moneda) in an unsuccessful coup attempt known as the Tanquetazo.
If it wasn't so I wouldn't be here [...] As for the bourgeois state, at the present moment, we are seeking to overcome it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salvador_Allende   (4799 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Jules REgis Debray (Bolivian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Jules REgis Debray (Bolivian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Jules REgis Debray[zhUl rAzhEs´ dubrA´] Pronunciation Key, 1940–, French journalist and government official.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Jules Regis Debray
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 The Border & A Young Man in the Know: two stories by Regis Debray.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Border and A Young Man in the Know: two stories by Regis Debray.
At this Georgia sky the color of a bleeding night.
This is social commentary but I wouldn't call it revolutionary.
www.spinelessbooks.com /bookviews/DebrayR_TB.html   (98 words)

  
 LILEKS (James) The Bleat
The Anglosphere, as represented by two people in a dining room in a city in the middle of North America.
If you could find a better name for a high-handed French given to public pronouncements, you couldn’t do better than Regis Debray.
Here's his bio according to the Times: "Régis Debray, a former adviser to President Francois Mitterrand of France, is editor of Cahiers de Mediologie and the author of the forthcoming ``The God That Prevailed.''
www.lileks.com /bleats/archive/03/0203/022403.html   (2051 words)

  
 Power Line: The dish on the Times and Regis Debray
The dish on the Times and Regis Debray
As promised, Andrew Sullivan takes on the New York Times' whitewash of Regis Debray in his daily dish this morning.
It contained every supercilious canard about American crudeness, religiosity, lack of sophistication that the old Marxist European left has now learned to deploy.
powerlineblog.com /archives/002337.php   (179 words)

  
 Amazon.com: DEBRAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Politics, Ideology & Education: Federal Policy During the Clinton and Bush Administrations by Elizabeth H. Debray and Carl Kaestle (Paperback - Feb 3, 2006)
Prison writings [of] Régis Debray; by Régis Debray (Unknown Binding - 1973)
The New Testament: Through 100 Masterpieces of Art by Regis Debray (Paperback - Nov 30, 2004)
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&keywords=DEBRAY&page=1   (324 words)

  
 Revolution in the Revolution? - Regis Debray
- excerpts from the classic by Regis Debray -
In April 1967, Debray went as a journalist..
reports - credible in view of what is known of present day Latin American realities - have circulated that Debray has been tortured and starved in prison and that he has been subject to lengthy interrogation by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
www.tamilnation.org /ideology/debray.htm   (3467 words)

  
 New Left Review - Regis Debray: Letter from America
And as for you and your anti-imperialist friends, my dear Debray, you may think the game is up.
C***’s letter, mailed from Washington only days before he left on a mission for his new government, arrived too late for Régis Debray to reply with his own, very different future for Europe, as he explains in an epitaph for the former French diplomat:
Flavius Josephus, Jewish military leader of the 1st century ad, walked out on a hopeless war of independence and went over to the Romans, announcing, “God has fled his sanctuary and set up with those against whom you are fighting”.
newleftreview.org /A2430   (4458 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Regis Debray and the Latin American revolution;
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 Keith Reader: Regis Debray, University of Michigan Press
Keith Reader: Regis Debray, University of Michigan Press
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