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Title	:	The Society of the Spectacle
Author	:	Guy Debord
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	1995 by Zone Books (first published 1967)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Politics. Theory. Sociology

The Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

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Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and everyday life in the late twentieth century. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord's text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image/information culture.

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Original Title:	La Société du Spectacle
ISBN:	0942299795 (ISBN13: 9780942299793)
Edition Language:	English

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Spectacle is the image society creates in order to contemplate itself and legitimate its existence. When the abstraction is made real by the dissolution of reality, what we have is a Society of the Spectacle, where images are no longer the product but the producer of their own market. In this beautifully written essay, poetic and conceptually rigorous at a time, French theorist Guy Debord demonstrates how and why economy has autonomously generated a dimension parallel to reality (the Spectacle)

It only took 154 pages to change our world. Guy Debord's manifesto/book length essay that is truly a masterpiece of political writing that borders on the poetic. It is also a crystal clear view how culture is formed in the 20th (and of course the 21st) century. The theater is built in front us and we are lead to believe that we actually participate in its adventure. As Johnny Rotten said at the last Sex Pistols concert in the late 70's "Have you ever felt the feeling that you have been had?"

Eerily prescient, and still a brilliant read about the alienation of labor, the advertisement of time, and the banalization of space.



A strange work of social criticism. The cover is deceptive--this is not a book about mass media or audience behaviors. It is more like a history of socialist ideas; the author spends most of his time in this little volume analyzing subtle strands of Marxist thought. The format is also odd--the author writes in a 'diary' style, like a Wittgenstein or a Lichtenburg. It is not a continuous narrative, but rather a collection of tiny notes organized around the theme of consumerism and consciousness.

Zitti tutti, va in scena il Potere!Non c'è dialogo. Non c'è scelta. Gli individui sono testimoni passivi, ammirano le immagini, scelte dal potere, che sostituiscono la realtà. Il pubblico guarda, non agisce e non reagisce. Reale e virtuale si confondono, perdono identità. Si assiste così alla rimozione di ogni verità vissuta sotto la presenza reale della falsità assicurata dall'organizzazione dell'apparenza. È vero ciò che il potere mostra. Il resto è impostura. Il reale perde consistenza, è

Even for a theoretical text written by an extreme leftist, in the late sixties, in Paris, this is a convoluted read. The chapters seem to demarcate different aspects of the idea that is the spectacle. There is a lot of debate over whether or not this book had much political influence over the events of May 1968 in Paris. If nothing else those same student activists had to have had some faith in the ideas put forth here. The structure seems haphazard. There is a very aphoristic, almost