The Society of the SpectacleFew works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s 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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... human beings once located their own powers , the very powers that had been wrenched from them - but those cloud ... human powers in a " world beyond ” – and the perfection of sepa- ration within human beings . - SO LONG AS THE REALM of ...
... humanity of the commodity finally attends to the workers ' " leisure and humanity " for the simple reason that political economy as such now can and must - bring these spheres under its sway . Thus it is that the totality of human ...
... human and social inasmuch as it exists for human beings . The limitations of human practice , and the vari- ous stages of labor - these are what until now have human- ized ( and also dehumanized ) time , both cyclical time and the ...
Contents
Preface to the Third French Edition | 7 |
Separation Perfected | 11 |
The Commodity as Spectacle | 25 |
Copyright | |
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