La Société du spectacle

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 cenlury. 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.

First sentence: IN SOCIETIES dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles.

Year

2002

Language

English

Publisher

AKPress

Editions

23

Reader rating

3.9 / 5 (14)

Pages

124

ISBN

9780946061129

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