The society of the spectacle
By: Guy Debord ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
Contributors: Nicholson-Smith, Donald.
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Work titles: La société du spectacle.
Description: "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.
Notes: Originally published in French as: La société du spectacle. - Paris : Buchet-Chastel, 1967.