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# Society of the Spectacle

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Review: Excellent volume. It is old but it is also now - Possibly the most important book of the 20th century. Cool edition. I love guy debord
Review: A nice new edition of a prescient and urgent text - This is an attractively presented edition of Debord's excellent neo-Marxian critique of capitalism, including an interesting new introduction. Two elements of Debord's brief masterpiece stood out, to me at least, as particularly relevant in the contemporary context: (1) His warning (in 1968) that the rise of the service sector in the West and the shift of manufacturing to the East did not signal the emergence of a classless society, but rather the penetration of 'factory-like' working conditions into the new 'white collar' jobs being created and, ultimately, the intensification, rather than the resolution, of class antagonisms and exploitation. The global financial crisis (and specifically the implications of the various 'austerity measures' for 'ordinary' working people), along with the 'Occupy' protests ('the 99%' versus 'the 1%' etc) would seem to bear this argument out. (2) The idea of the spectacle as 'a social relation between people that is mediated by images' has never been more relevant than in the age of Facebook, iPads and 24-hour rolling news - from 9/11 to the 'Arab Spring', the twenty-first century has proven that the society of the spectacle is still very much alive today. A book well-worth reading.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 312,935 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 500 in History of Civilisation & Culture 1,632 in Business & Economic History 1,962 in Social Sciences (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (950) |
| Dimensions  | 13.34 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm |
| ISBN-10  | 0934868077 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0934868075 |
| Item weight  | 159 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 118 pages |
| Publication date  | 1 Jan. 2002 |
| Publisher  | Black & Red,U.S. |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent volume. It is old but it is also now
*by N***N on 21 January 2026*

Possibly the most important book of the 20th century. Cool edition. I love guy debord

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A nice new edition of a prescient and urgent text
*by B***W on 19 April 2012*

This is an attractively presented edition of Debord's excellent neo-Marxian critique of capitalism, including an interesting new introduction. Two elements of Debord's brief masterpiece stood out, to me at least, as particularly relevant in the contemporary context: (1) His warning (in 1968) that the rise of the service sector in the West and the shift of manufacturing to the East did not signal the emergence of a classless society, but rather the penetration of 'factory-like' working conditions into the new 'white collar' jobs being created and, ultimately, the intensification, rather than the resolution, of class antagonisms and exploitation. The global financial crisis (and specifically the implications of the various 'austerity measures' for 'ordinary' working people), along with the 'Occupy' protests ('the 99%' versus 'the 1%' etc) would seem to bear this argument out. (2) The idea of the spectacle as 'a social relation between people that is mediated by images' has never been more relevant than in the age of Facebook, iPads and 24-hour rolling news - from 9/11 to the 'Arab Spring', the twenty-first century has proven that the society of the spectacle is still very much alive today. A book well-worth reading.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great edition.
*by P***E on 5 September 2024*

Arrived promptly and well packaged by the seller.

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