A Summary of Guy Debord’s “The Society of the Spectacle”: Chapter 1
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In an earlier post, I give a general account of Guy Debord’s major book, La Société du spectacle (1967) — translated into English in 1970 as The Society of the Spectacle.
I would like to summarize key paragraphs of his book and rephrase them with a more contemporary vocabulary in order to make Debord’s views accessible to everyone.
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