The society of the spectacle / Guy Debord.

Main entry:

Debord, Guy, 1931-1994, author.

Title & Author:

The society of the spectacle / Guy Debord.

Publication:

New York : Zone Books, 1994.

Description:

154 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Preface to the third French edition -- Separation perfected -- The commodity as spectacle -- Unity and division within appearances -- The proletariat as subject and representation -- Time and history -- Spectacular time -- Environmental planning -- Negation and consumption in the cultural sphere -- Ideology in material form.
Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0942299795 (paperback)
9780942299793 (paperback)
0942299809 (hardback)
9780942299809 (hardback)

Subject:

Social psychology.
Proletariat.
Social classes.
Psychology, Social
Social Class
Cultuur.
Massamedia.
Moderniteit.
Psychologie sociale.
Prolétariat.
Classes sociales.
social psychology.
proletariat.
social classes.
70.08 social philosophy.
Ideologie
Kultur
Idéologie.

Form/genre:

Situationist literature.
Protest literature.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 105033
Call No.: ID PLS HM291.D4; ID:94-B2105
Status: Available

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