The society of the spectacle / Guy Debord ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.

By:

Debord, Guy, 1931-1994

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Zone Books, 1994.Description: 154 p. : 24 cmISBN:

9780942299793 (pbk.)

Other title:

Society of the spectacle [Other title]

Uniform titles:

Société du spectacle. English

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DDC classification:

302 DEB 23 000810

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Table of contents

Contents:

I. Separation Perfected II. The Commodity as Spectacle III. Unity and Division Within Appearances IV. The Proletariat as Subject and Representation V. Time and History VI. Spectacular Time VII. Environmental Planning VIII. Negation and Consumption in the Cultural Sphere IX. Ideology in Material Form.

Summary: 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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Originally published in France as "La Societe du Spectacle" in 1967 by Buchet-Chastel.

I. Separation Perfected
II. The Commodity as Spectacle
III. Unity and Division Within Appearances
IV. The Proletariat as Subject and Representation
V. Time and History
VI. Spectacular Time
VII. Environmental Planning
VIII. Negation and Consumption in the Cultural Sphere
IX. Ideology in Material Form.

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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