Régis Debray

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Régis Debray (French: [ʁeʒis dəbʁɛ]), born on 2 September 1940 in Paris, is a French writer and philosopher. A revolutionary activist in his youth, he took part in the Bolivian guerrilla led by Che Guevara in 1967. He was arrested, tried by a military tribunal and sentenced to thirty years in prison. President Juan José Torres granted him amnesty in 1970. Following his release, he supported Salvador Allende’s socialist government in Chile. During François Mitterrand’s first presidential term, he served as an adviser on relations with countries of the Third World. Debray is the founder of mediology, an interdisciplinary approach to analysing the interplay between technology and culture.

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