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For 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 societe du spectacle. A Swerve Edition, distributed for Zone Books.
| ISBN | 0942299795 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | ISBN13 | 9780942299793
(What's this?) | | Pages | 154 | | Publisher | Zone Books | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Zone Books | | Weight (grammes) | 272 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | New York | | Publication date | 01 Nov 1995 | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Translator | Donald Nicholson-Smith, Donald Nicholson- Smith | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | HM291.D413 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY | 320.01 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Preface to the Third French Edition | | 7 | | I | | Separation Perfected | | 11 | | II | | The Commodity as Spectacle | | 25 | | III | | Unity and Division Within Appearances | | 35 | | IV | | The Proletariat as Subject and Representation | | 47 | | V | | Time and History | | 91 | | VI | | Spectacular Time | | 109 | | VII | | Environmental Planning | | 119 | | VIII | | Negation and Consumption in the Cultural Sphere | | 129 | | IX | | Ideology in Material Form | | 149 |
"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)  Be the first to write a customer review
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