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| Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, trans. And we talk some real trash on North American suburbia, whose surface-level image of homogeneous conflictless positivity is the true legitimation mechanism of capitalism here in the dying imperial core. Is it true that all that was once lived is now mere representation? That the whole of society is mediated by an endless proliferation of passifying images? That the fullness of life has been replaced by its bloodless negation in survival? Because it sure feels like it! We discuss what exactly he means by spectacle, reflect on whether and how it’s possible to maintain his distinction between real needs and pseudo-needs, and consider what a politics without representation would, ahem, look like. Born in Paris in 1931, Guy Debord was a filmmaker, social critic, and founder and longtime member the Situationist International (1957-1972). Spectators are the members of society that are susceptible to the spectacle because they continue to feel more and more isolated. Potlatch: bulletin dinformation du groupe franais de. Guy Debord explains how he considers people in society that are not a part of the production of products to be spectators. The Society of the Spectacle Book Guy Debord Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith 2020 Published by: Princeton University Press View Buy This Book in Print summary Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. In today’s episode we talk about Guy Debord’s critique of life under modern capitalism by looking at his scathing and provocative The Society of the Spectacle. Internationale lettriste, August 1953, journal of the Lettrist International, edited by Debord.

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