- Social psychology, Classes socials, Proletariat, Social sciences
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.
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- Author
- Guy Debord
- First published
- January 1, 2002
- Pages
- 157
- Publisher
- AKPress, REBEL PRESS, [Black & Red]
- Editions
- 52
- Language
- Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian
- ISBN
- 9783921523360
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“In post-industrial societies where mass production and media predominate, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly experienced has been replaced with its representation in the form of images.”
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