Name: Society of the Spectacle
Price: 567.00 TWD
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Author: Guy Debord
ISBN: 9780946061129

Type

Physical Book

Author

Guy Debord

Publisher

Akpress

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

124

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0946061122

ISBN13

9780946061129

Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord (Author) · Akpress · Paperback

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Synopsis "Society of the Spectacle "

The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's 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. This new edition is the Ken Knabb translation. Certainly it has the most "modern" design of all three editions, as well as a short new introduction from the translator.

Guy Debord

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Guy Debord (1931–1994) was a French philosopher, filmmaker, and political theorist, a central figure of the Situationist International. His most influential work is The Society of the Spectacle (La société du spectacle, 1967), an essay that criticizes the transformation of social relations into representations mediated by images, where authentic life is replaced by its representation. In 1988, he published Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, delving deeper into his earlier ideas and analyzing the evolution of the spectacle in contemporary society.

Debord also ventured into cinema, adapting his main work into a homonymous film in 1973. His thought has influenced various disciplines, from critical theory to contemporary art.

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