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    The Society of the Spectacle (French: La société du spectacle) is a 1967 work of philosophy and Marxist critical theory by Guy Debord where he develops...
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    The spectacle is a central notion in the Situationist theory, developed by Guy Debord in his 1967 book The Society of the Spectacle. In the general sense...
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    Société du Spectacle (Society of the Spectacle) is a black-and-white 1974 film by the Situationist Guy Debord, based on his 1967 book of the same name...
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  • French spectacle, itself a reflection of the Latin spectaculum "a show" from spectare "to view, watch" frequentative form of specere "to look at." The word...
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    individuals and society. Another important concept of situationist theory was the primary means of counteracting the spectacle; the construction of situations...
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    Guy Debord (category Critics of work and the work ethic)
    was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie. Debord is best known for his 1967 essay The Society of the Spectacle. Guy Debord was born in Paris...
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  • value), colonizes all of life and reduces society to a mere representation, The Society of the Spectacle. The American philosopher Eric Hoffer identified...
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    to combat the malaise and boredom of the society of the spectacle. Dérives are necessary, according to Situationist theory, because of the increasingly...
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  • fascism tends towards an aestheticization of politics, in the sense of a spectacle in which it allows the masses to express themselves without seeing...
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    In The Society of the Spectacle (1967), Guy Debord presented the theory of "le spectacle"—the systematic conflation of advanced capitalism, the mass...
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