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Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord (1995, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherZONE Books

ISBN-100942299795

ISBN-139780942299793

eBay Product ID (ePID)444963

Product Key Features

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSociety of the Spectacle

Publication Year1995

SubjectSocial Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, History & Theory, Social Psychology

TypeTextbook

AuthorGuy Debord

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Psychology

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight9.7 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN89-039940

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"In all that has happened in the last twenty years, the most important change lies in the very continuity of the spectacle. Quite simply, the spectacle's domination has succeeded in raising a whole generation moulded to its laws. The extraordinary new conditions in which this entire generation has lived constitute a comprehensive summary of all that, henceforth, the spectacle will forbid; and also all that it will permit." -Guy Debord(1988)

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal302

SynopsisFor the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture. At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s. Today, Debord's work continues to be in the forefront of debates about the fate of consumer society and the operation of modern social power. In a sweeping revision of Marxist categories, the notion of the spectacle takes the problem of the commodity from the sphere of economics to a point at which the commodity as an image dominates not only economic exchange but the primary communicative and symbolic activity of all modern societies. Guy Debord was one of the most important participants in the activities associated with the Situationist International in the 1960s. Also an artist and filmmaker, he is the author of Memoires and Commentaires sur la soci t du spectacle. A Swerve Edition, distributed for Zone Books., For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation., Few 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. "In all that has happened in the last twenty years, the most important change lies in the very continuity of the spectacle. Quite simply, the spectacle's domination has succeeded in raising a whole generation moulded to its laws. The extraordinary new conditions in which this entire generation has lived constitute a comprehensive summary of all that, henceforth, the spectacle will forbid; and also all that it will permit."-- Guy Debord (1988), 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 20th century. Now available in English translation, Debord's text remains as crucial for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image/information culture.

LC Classification NumberHM291