It is its own product, and it has made its own. Summary: 'Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debords The Society of the Spectacle. Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp. The spectacle is the preservation of unconsciousness within the practical change of the conditions of existence. The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord - Full Audiobook Theory Audiobooks 5.16K subscribers Subscribe 28K views 2 years ago The Das Kapital of the 20th century. Donald Nicholson-Smith (New York: Zone Books, 1994).

| Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, trans. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. 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 That the fullness of life has been replaced by its bloodless negation in survival?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.

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. The society of the spectacle is still a commodity society, ultimately rooted in production, but reorganized at a higher and more abstract level.

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