The Society of the Spectacle

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gptkbp:instanceOf book
gptkbp:adaptation film
gptkbp:author Guy Debord
gptkbp:availableIn digital format
gptkbp:citedBy cultural theorists
gptkbp:context 1960s counterculture
gptkbp:critical_reception academic interest
gptkbp:criticism media theory
gptkbp:discusses alienation
media representation
the impact of technology
capitalism
consumer culture
social control
the role of art
the nature of society
the critique of modernity
the role of images
spectacle and reality
spectacle society
the commodification of life
the concept of the spectacle
the implications for advertising
the implications for agency
the implications for authenticity
the implications for capitalism
the implications for community
the implications for consumerism
the implications for culture
the implications for everyday life
the implications for experience
the implications for freedom
the implications for globalization
the implications for identity
the implications for ideology
the implications for knowledge
the implications for perception
the implications for politics
the implications for power
the implications for public space
the implications for resistance
the implications for social change
the implications for social media
the implications for surveillance
the implications for truth
the implications for urban life
the relationship between society and spectacle
gptkbp:genre philosophy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Society of the Spectacle
gptkbp:impact cultural criticism
gptkbp:influence Situationist International
gptkbp:influenced postmodernism
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Henri_Lefebvre
gptkb:Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel
gptkb:Karl_Marx
gptkbp:ISBN 978-0-87286-177-2
gptkbp:language French
gptkbp:majorIndustry spectacle
gptkbp:notableQuote “In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.”
gptkbp:pageCount 224
gptkbp:publishedBy 1967
gptkbp:publisher gptkb:Buchet-Chastel
gptkbp:relatedPatent Comments_on_the_Society_of_the_Spectacle
gptkbp:theory Marxism
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Donald_Nicholson-Smith
English