The revolutionary thinker, Guy Debord was the leading figure
of the French intellectual group who called themselves The Situationist International. His text,
The Society of the Spectacle written in 1967 is one of the greatest theoretical examinations of our
socio-cultural condition, describing in pinpoint accuracy, the dreadful corporate globalization
craze currently sweeping the planet.
His work was instrumental in
sparking the student uprisings in Europe in the late sixties. In 1989 he
published his "Commentaries on the Society of the Spectacle" Both texts
are chillingly accurate descriptions of the world of simulation and lies
that mankind has transformed his life into. In December of 1994, at the age
of 62, Debord killed himself.
The
Society of Spectacle
C O
N T E N T S
Chapter
1 Separation Perfected
Chapter
2 Commodity as Spectacle
Chapter
3 Unity and Division Within Appearance
Chapter
4 The Proletariat as Subject and as Representation
Chapter
5 Time and History
Chapter
6 Spectacular Time
Chapter
7 The Organization of Territory
Chapter
8 Negation and Consumption Within Culture
Chapter
9 Ideology Materialized
Chapter
10 Colophon
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