The Society of the Spectacle
Book by Guy Debord
Originally published: 1967
Author: Guy Debord
Language: French
Original title: La société du spectacle
Pages: 154 (1994 Zone Books edition)
Subject: Spectacle
Translator: Donald Nicholson-Smith
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The Society of the Spectacle is a 1967 work of philosophy and Marxist critical theory by Guy Debord where he develops and presents the concept of the ...
Aug 10, 2016 · Debord: In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.
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Debord's primary thesis that Capitalism reduces society to a series of spectacle, images, which cloud reality and in which everything becomes a mere commodity.
The spectacle is the moment when the commodity has attained the total occupation of social life. Not only is the relation to the commodity visible but it is all ...
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Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Che, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. Paris ...
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Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord's text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary ...
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This is the original translation by Fredy Perlman, kept in print continuously for the last 30 years, keeping the flame alive when no-one else cared.
The spectacle is the map of this new world, a map which covers precisely its territory, The very powers which escaped us show themselves to us in all their ...
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Read 1064 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy De…