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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... spec- tacle , where the perceptible world is replaced by a set of images that are superior to that world yet at the same time impose themselves as eminently perceptible . 37 THE WORLD THE SPECTACLE holds up to view is at once here and ...
... spec- tacle's cultural sector gives overt expression to what the spectacle is implicitly in its totality - the communication of the incommunicable . Thoroughgoing attacks on language are liable to emerge in this context coolly invested ...
... on the contrary , it is the society of the spec- tacle , imposing itself in its massive reality , that validates the chill dream of structuralism . 203 WITHOUT A DOUBT , the critical concept of the 142 THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE.
Contents
Preface to the Third French Edition | 7 |
Separation Perfected | 11 |
The Commodity as Spectacle | 25 |
Copyright | |
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