Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord XX, who completed his life beyond the media civilization, away from everyone and secretly. He is one of the most important figures and prophets of the second half of the century. He is a radical who refuses to participate in the demonstration! Debord's book The Society of the Spectacle is a work that has been able to resist history as much as it is destructive. When it was published in the 70s, it caused "shock" due to its "extreme" theses, and in the 80s it was accepted as a text that confirms life. Debord, who defined and named the society of spectacle for the first time, which had already established its dominance all over the world and put it into daily language, stated that the sovereignty of the spectacle, which he described as an extension of capitalist economy and commodity circulation, also existed in countries that claimed to be socialist; He said that the world would become a single market again and bureaucratic powers would come under the dominance of the American type show. In Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, which he wrote years later without feeling the need to change a single word in The Society of the Spectacle, he demonstrates how phenomena such as the mafia, terrorism, and the police state became a part of the spectacle. In the society of spectacle, promises of salvation become a part of the show and become fake. The whole world is now the stage of the same show; We all become actors and spectators of the same show. Destroying historical information, generalizing censorship under the guise of originality, engaging in terrorism, which is the indispensable twin of the spectacle, making truth a moment of falsehood, erasing subjectivity... constitute the discourse of the society of the spectacle. This book of despair reveals that we live in a prison world. The journey through the labyrinths of the Society of Spectacle, which extends from ancient times to the present day, from the concept of time to the concept of space, from urbanism to tourism and cultural consumption clowning, gradually turns into horror in the middle of the book: There is no exit! Debord is pessimistic! He is a realist, like all revolutionaries who live at the peak of pessimism... He tells the truth.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 240

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Printing Year: 1996

Number of Pages: 240

Language Turkish