Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle

Cover: 9788027381135 | The Society of the Spectacle | Guy Debord | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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First published in 1967, The Society of the Spectacle is a bracing diagnosis of modern capitalist life, arguing that social relations have been displaced into representations, commodities, and images. Written in terse, aphoristic theses, the book fuses Marxian critique, Hegelian dialectics, and avant-garde provocation. Its style is deliberately compressed and incendiary, placing it within the intellectual ferment of postwar French theory and the revolutionary culture that culminated in May 1968. Guy Debord, filmmaker, theorist, and leading figure of the Situationist International, wrote from within a milieu hostile to bureaucratic Marxism, consumer capitalism, and passive cultural consumption. His experiments with détournement, urban psychogeography, and anti-spectacular art shaped a work that is at once political philosophy and manifesto, born from the conviction that everyday life itself had become colonized by commodity logic. This book is essential for readers interested in media theory, critical theory, political philosophy, and the culture of late capitalism. Demanding but immensely rewarding, it offers a vocabulary for understanding advertising, celebrity, digital mediation, and the commodification of experience with unsettling prescience.

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Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788027381135
ISBN-10:	8027381134
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Debord, Guy
Übersetzung:	Knabb, Ken
Hersteller:	e-artnow
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	e-artnow s.r.o., Za Sidlistem 22, ?-143 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 5 mm
Von/Mit:	Guy Debord
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.05.2023
Gewicht:	0,114 kg