GARDENS & REVOLUTIONS: GUY DEBORD, WENDELL BERRY
AND THE CULTIVATION OF THE CREATIVE SUBJECT

By Andrew Gross

An Independent Study Thesis
submitted to the Department of Political Science
at The College of Wooster
March 2008
in partial fulfillment of the I.S. Thesis

This thesis explores new perspectives regarding the creative subject in the modern era through a comparison of the theoretical work of Guy Debord and Wendell Berry. I demonstrate that the radical rejection of society enunciated by Guy Debord, a French 20th Century neo-Marxist revolutionary, requires an element of being and cultivation as advocated by the 20th Century sustainability author Wendell Berry. It is through developing and comparing both theorists that an affective technique emerges—a technique that recognizes the interdependence of grace and experimentalism. Experimentalism and grace are equally necessary for the cultivation of the creative subject.

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