Paperback, 124 pages
English language
Published Feb. 24, 2006 by AKPress.
Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
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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.
Subjects
- Social history
- Sociology, Social Studies
- Politics/International Relations
- Political
- Political Science
- Politics / Current Events
- History: World
- Popular Culture - General
- General
- Philosophy / Political
- Reference
- Proletariat
- Social classes
- Social psychology