In the late 1960s, French theorist Guy Debord wrote the essay "The Society of the Spectacle" within an impending era of mass consumption that would eventually dominate modern society. Debord critiques ...
In 1967 French thinker Guy Debord published an influential philosophical treatise, La Société du Spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle), which argued that we had become a society of images, in which ...
Guy Debord's landmark cinematic analysis of consumer society is based on his influential sociological book "La société du spectacle" (1967). Debord was a leading member of the avant-garde art movement ...
Since 1967, Guy Debord’s critical manifesto ‘The Society of the Spectacle’ has been an essentiel theoretical basis for any attempt to analyse the capitalist society of images that permeates every ...
What if Donald Trump isn’t a break from political tradition — but its logical evolution in the age of media saturation? Drawing on Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, this video explores how ...
Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle warned of a world ruled by images over truth. Decades later, its ideas find new relevance in the rise and dominance of Donald Trump. Iran live updates: Trump ...
Hyperallergic: An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord's 'The Society of the Spectacle'
Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La société du spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer culture. The book ...
A web edition of our new translation of Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. Debord describes and critiques the way we live. The power in these ideas lies in their ability to question, identify, and ...