Guy Debord

The society of the spectacle

First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle, has since acquired a cult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the ideas generated by the events of May 1968 in France, Debord's pitiless attack on commodity fetishism and its incrustation in the practices of everyday life continues to btirn brightly in today's age of satellite television and the soundbite In Comments on the Society of the Spectacle published twenty years later, Debord returned to the themes of his previous analysis and demonstrated how they were all the more relevant in a period when the 'integrated spectacle' was dominant. Resolutely refusing to be reconciled to the system, Debord trenchantly slices through the doxa and mystification offered tip by journalists and pundits to show how aspects of reality as diverse as terrorism and the environment, the Mafia and the media, were caught in the logic of the spectacular society. Pointing the finger clearly at those who benefit from the logic of domination, Debord's Comments convey the revolutionary impulse at the heart of situationism.

Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

Ayşen Ekmekçi

Okşan Taşkent

Gösteri toplumu ve yorumlar

Systématisant les thèmes développés dans la revue Internationale situationniste, Debord critique tous les aspects du capitalisme et de son système général d'illusions où la représentation est préférée à la réalité, tout en incitant à une praxis révolutionnaire nouvelle pour une société sans classe.

La société du spectacle

La sociedad del espectáculo

Debord's audacious autobiography, here beautifully illustrated.

Panegyric

"The specialists of the cinema said that its revolutionary politics were bad; the politicians among all the left-wing illusionists said that it was bad cinema. But when one is at once a revolutionary and a filmmaker, one may easily demonstrate that their general bitterness derives from the obvious fact that the film in question is the exact critique of the society which they do not know how to combat; and a first example of the cinema which they do not know how to make." [Guy Debord, on his film 'Society Of The Spectacle'] Presented for the first time in English, this volume includes the full texts of Debord's first 5 films, with an introduction explaining, amongst other things, why Debord is determined that the films should never again be shown.

Society of the Spectacle and Other Films

Donald Nicholson-Smith

Sick Planet

مجتمع الاستعراض

Ken Knabb

The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's 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 20th century. This new edition is the Ken Knabb translation. Certainly it has the most "modern" design of all three editions, as well as a short new introduction from the translator.

Society of the Spectacle

Filósofo, agitador social, diretor de cinema, Guy Debord se definia como 'doutor em nada' e pensador radical. Ligou-se nos anos 50 à geração herdeira do dadaísmo e do surrealismo. A primeira edição brasileira de 'A sociedade do espetáculo' - um livro lúcido e demolidor, precursor de toda análise crítica da moderna sociedade de consumo - sai neste volume acompanhada de dois trabalhos posteriores - um de 1979, outro de 1988 -, em que Debord comenta a própria obra.

comentários sobre a sociedade do espetáculo

A Sociedade do espetáculo

the foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-August 1960)

Correspondence

"All my life I have seen only troubled times, extreme divisions in society, and immense destruction; I have taken part in these troubles." --Guy Debord Guy Debord is one of the 20th Century's most prophetic critics. His bestselling work, Society of the Spectacle, decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life. Since his suicide in 1994, the accuracy and pertinence of his writings on those troubled times is ever more apparent. A Sick Planet brings together three of his key essays. The Rise and Fall of the "Spectacular" Commodity-Economy is an analysis of the Watts riots in Los Angeles in the summer of 1965, when much of the city's black population fought thousands of police and National Guard for several days. The Explosion Point of Ideology in China examines and celebrates the decomposition of bureaucratic power and its ideology in China. A Sick Planet presents an extremely prescient polemic on global environmental degradation

A Sick Planet

La società dello spettacolo

La Sociedad del espectáculo

Contains three works, two of which have been previously published as pamphlets, offering an analysis of the 1965 Watts Riot in Los Angeles, the decomposition of bureaucratic power in China, and global environmental degradation.

Vincent Kaufmann

"Toute ma vie, je n'ai vu que des temps troublés, d'extrêmes déchirements dans la société, et d'immenses destructions ; j'ai pris part à ces troubles. De telles circonstances suffiraient sans doute à empêcher le plus transparent de mes actes ou de mes raisonnements d'être jamais approuvé universellement. Mais en outre plusieurs d'entre eux, je le crois bien, peuvent avoir été mal compris".

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