The Society of the Spectacle, originally published in Paris in 1967, has been translated into more than twenty other languages and is arguably the most important radical book of the twentieth century. This is the first edition in any language to include extensive annotations, clarifying the historical allusions and revealing the sources of Debord’s "détournements."
Contrary to popular misconceptions, Debord’s book is neither an ivory tower “philosophical” discourse nor a mere expression of “protest.” It is a carefully considered effort to clarify the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the society in which we find ourselves. This makes it more of a challenge, but it is also why it remains so pertinent nearly half a century after its original publication while countless other social theories and intellectual fads have come and gone.
It has, in fact, become even more pertinent than ever, because the spectacle has become more all-pervading than ever — to the point that it is almost universally taken for granted. Most people today have scarcely any awareness of pre-spectacle history, let alone of anti-spectacle possibilities. As Debord noted in his follow-up work, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988), "spectacular domination has succeeded in raising an entire generation molded to its laws."

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La sociedad del espectáculo

Société du spectacle

Guy Debord, Guy Debord, Ron. Adams, Donald Nicholson-Smith, Colectivo Maldeojo

United States, United States of America

Annotated edition, Berkeley, CA, 2014

annotated edition, 2014-03-20

California, January 1, 2002

New York

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Translation from French of: Société du spectacle.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-146) and index.

"The work is a series of 221 short theses divided into nine chapters. Debord focuses on an aesthetic approach, his theory of the spectacle is grounded in aesthetics. He wrote in an almost poetic theoretical style. Debord provided a valuable contributions to the field of media theory. The 'Society of the Spectacle' provides an extensive reinterpretation of Marx's work, most notably in its application of commodity fetishism to contemporary mass media. It also expands the concept of Marx's theory of alienation to include far more than labor activity, and exposes the common spectacular politics of Soviet and American regimes. Debord also builds significantly on the work of Lukács. The book is filled with 'detourned phrases', that is citations altered in detournements, drawn particularly from Hegel."--Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle)

"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."--BOOK JACKET

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 cenlury. 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.

Guy Debord (1931-1994) was the founder and most influential member of the Situationist International, the notorious avant- garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE, originally published in Paris in 1967, has been translated into more than twenty other languages and is arguably the most important radical book of the twentieth century. This is the first edition in any language to include extensive annotations, clarifying the historical allusions and revealing the sources of Debord's "detournements."

Preface by Ken Knabb
1. Separation Perfected
2. The Commodity as Spectacle
3. Unity and Division Within Appearances
4. The Proletariat as Subject and Representation
5. Time and History
6. Spectacular Time
7. Territorial Management
8. Negation and Consumption Within Culture
9. Ideology Materialized

IN SOCIETIES dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles.

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