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The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord & Ken Knabb is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Society of the Spectacle about?
'One should bear in mind when reading this book that it was written with the deliberate intention of doing harm to spectacular society' --Guy Debord. Originally published in France in 1968 The Society of the Spectacle is a brilliantly lucid analysis of the forms of social control and domination under modern capitalism. Since its publication it has had an enormous underground influence both on active revolutionaries and on radical cultural and political theory. Prescient in its condemnation of the image as the tool used by Capital to alienate us from the reality of our everyday lives, The Society of the Spectacle is more relevant than ever in the era of information and virtual technologies.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.Guy Ernest Debord was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and
Who reads The Society of the Spectacle?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Guy Debord & Ken Knabb
- Publisher
- Hobgoblin Press
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Journalism, Media, Social_sciences
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (9,479 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13