The Society of the Spectacle
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Unredacted Word
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: La Société du Spectacle
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781736961834; 9781736961803; 9781736961810; 9781736961827
Copyright date: 2021
First sentence: 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.
Notes: This new translation brings a concrete edge to the text, elaborating upon the original, and adding annotations. Bringing fifty years of prominent radical thinking back to the text, from Baudrillard to Odell to Zuboff—it’s clear that Debord’s book is more relevant in the era of social media, the attention economy, and the emergence of Surveillance Capitalism than ever before.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface to the Third French Edition; label: Chapter 1
title: Separation Perfected; label: Chapter 2
title: The Commodity as Spectacle; label: Chapter 3
title: Unity & Division Within Appearances; label: Chapter 4
title: The Proletariat as Subject and Representation; label: Chapter 5
title: Time & History; label: Chapter 6
title: Spectacular Time; label: Chapter 7
title: The Organization of Territory; label: Chapter 8
title: Negation and Consumption in the Cultural Sphere; label: Chapter 9
title: Ideology Materialized; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography