The society of the spectacle / Guy Debord. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Debord, Guy, 1931-1994.

Contributor:

Nicholson-Smith, Donald.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Société du spectacle. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Social psychology.

Proletariat.

Social classes.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

154 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

[First paperback edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Zone Books ; [Cambridge, Massachusetts] : [Distributed by The MIT Press], 1995.

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.

Contents:

I. Separation Perfected

II. The Commodity as Spectacle

III. Unity and Division Within Appearances

IV. The Proletariat as Subject and Representation

V. Time and History

VI. Spectacular Time

VII. Environmental Planning

VIII. Negation and Consumption in the Cultural Sphere

IX. Ideology in Material Form.

Notes:

Publisher's advertisements: [1] p. at end.

Designed by Bruce Mau with Greg Van Alstyne.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is "Seventh Printing 2002".

ISBN:

0942299795

9780942299793

OCLC:

34014738