The society of the spectacle /

By:

Debord, Guy, 1931-1994

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Uniform titles:

Société du spectacle. English

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LOC classification:

HM291 .D413 1994

Contents:

Preface to the third French edition -- Separation perfected -- The commodity as spectacle -- Unity and division within appearances -- The proletariat as subject and representation -- Time and history -- Spectacular time -- Environmental planning -- Negation and consumption in the cultural sphere -- Ideology in material form.

Review: "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."--Jacket.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Whitecliffe Library General Shelves	General	HM 291 DEB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0008633

"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."--Jacket.

Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.