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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... ment itself could demonstrate it beyond all possibility of doubt . Though prey to all kinds of illusions in other areas , Bernstein had rejected the notion that a crisis of capitalism must miraculously occur , thus forcing the hand of ...
... ment , its ideological title to ownership is already collaps- ing internationally : a power set up on the national level as a basically internationalist model must now renounce any claim to maintaining its false cohesion irrespective of ...
... ment of existing conditions must eventually entail a rejec- tion of that knowlege itself , and , on the other hand , the theory of practice , which alone has access , not only to the truth of all the knowledge in question , but also to ...
Contents
Preface to the Third French Edition | 7 |
Separation Perfected | 11 |
The Commodity as Spectacle | 25 |
Copyright | |
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