Introduction To The Theory Of Spectacles
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| Author | : Guy Debord |
| Publisher | : Bread and Circuses Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2012-10-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1617508306 |
The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is 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, in particular the May 1968 uprisings in France, up to the present day, with global capitalism seemingly staggering around in it’s Zombie end-phase, 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 ‘Red and Black’ translation from 1977 is Introduced by Notting Hill armchair insurrectionary Tom Vague with a galloping time line and pop-situ verve, and given a more analytical over view by young upstart thinker Sam Cooper.
| Author | : Otto Henker |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1924 |
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| Author | : Otto Henker |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1923 |
| Genre | : Contact lenses |
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| Author | : Marco Briziarelli |
| Publisher | : University of Westminster Press |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2017-12-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1911534459 |
Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord's theory of spectacle within the frame of 21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord’s original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, of its posterior revisitation in the 1990s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the concept within the scenario of contemporary informational capitalism and more specifically of digital and media labour. It is argued that the Spectacle 2.0 form operates as the interactive network that links through one singular (but contradictory) language and various imaginaries, uniting diverse productive contexts such as logistics, finance, new media and urbanism. Spectacle 2.0 thus colonizes most spheres of social life by processes of commodification, exploitation and reification. Diverse contributors consider the topic within the book’s two main sections: Part I conceptualizes and historicizes the Spectacle in the context of informational capitalism; contributions in Part II offer empirical cases that historicise the Spectacle in relation to the present (and recent past) showing how a Spectacle 2.0 approach can illuminate and deconstruct specific aspects of contemporary social reality. All contributions included in this book rework the category of the Spectacle to present a stimulating compendium of theoretical critical literature in the fields of media and labour studies. In the era of the gig-economy, highly mediated content and President Trump, Debord’s concept is arguably more relevant than ever.
| Author | : Otto Henker |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1924 |
| Genre | : Eyeglasses |
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| Author | : Devin Penner |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2019-06-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0774860537 |
Spectacle is usually considered a superficial form of politics, which tries to distract and deceive a passive audience. It is difficult to see how this type of politics could be reconciled with the democratic requirement of active and informed agency. Rethinking the Spectacle re-examines the tension between spectacle and political agency using the ideas and practices of Guy Debord and the Situationist International as a point of departure. Drawing on radical democratic theory and examining case studies such as the 2011 Occupy movement, Devin Penner concludes that spectacle can and should be used to mobilize the public for egalitarian purposes.
| Author | : Otto HENKER |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1924 |
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| Author | : J. William Rosenthal |
| Publisher | : Norman Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 530 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
| ISBN | : 9780930405717 |
| Author | : Guy Debord |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 105 |
| Release | : 2011-01-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1844676722 |
First published in 1967, Guy Debord’s stinging revolutionary critique ofcontemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired acult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the ideasgenerated by the events of May 1968 in France, Debord’s pitiless attackon commodity fetishism and its incrustation in the practices of everydaylife continues to burn brightly in today’s age of satellite televisionand the soundbite. In Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, publishedtwenty years later, Debord returned to the themes of his previousanalysis and demonstrated how they were all the more relevant in aperiod when the “integrated spectacle” was dominant. Resolutely refusingto be reconciled to the system, Debord trenchantly slices through thedoxa and mystification offered tip by journalists and pundits to showhow aspects of reality as diverse as terrorism and the environment, theMafia and the media, were caught up in the logic of the spectacularsociety. Pointing the finger clearly at those who benefit from the logicof domination, Debord’s Comments convey the revolutionary impulse atthe heart of situationism.
| Author | : Samir Suresh Gandesha |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Communism |
| ISBN | : 9789089648518 |
This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, where the world is packaged and presented to consumers in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore, Johan Hartle and Samir Gandesha offer a new look at the importance of Western Marxism from its early days to the present moment-and reveal why Marxist cultural critique must continue to play a vital role in any serious sociological analysis of contemporary society.
