Alan Dix Snip!t: An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’

Snip summary	Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La sociét... (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer cu... examines the “Spectacle,” Debord’s term for the e... manifestatio An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’ http://hyperallergic.com/...d-guide-to-guy-debords-the-society-of-the-spectacle/

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Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La sociét... (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer cu... examines the “Spectacle,” Debord’s term for the e... manifestatio

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Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La société du spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer culture. The book examines the “Spectacle,” Debord’s term for the everyday manifestation of capitalist-driven phenomena; advertising, television, film, and celebrity.

HTML	<p><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Society-of-the-Spectacle_Cover_Lauren-Purje.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-313586" src="http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Society-of-the-Spectacle_Cover_Lauren-Purje.jpeg" alt="The Society of the Spectacle_Cover_Lauren Purje" width="700" height="592" srcset="http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Society-of-the-Spectacle_Cover_Lauren-Purje.jpeg 1400w, http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Society-of-the-Spectacle_Cover_Lauren-Purje-213x180.jpeg 213w, http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Society-of-the-Spectacle_Cover_Lauren-Purje-768x650.jpeg 768w, http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Society-of-the-Spectacle_Cover_Lauren-Purje-1024x866.jpeg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"></a></p> <p>Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle" onclick="__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle', 'La société du spectacle');"><em>La société du spectacle</em></a> (<em>The Society of the Spectacle</em>) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer culture. The book examines the “Spectacle,” Debord’s term for the everyday manifestation of capitalist-driven phenomena; advertising, television, film, and celebrity.</p>

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<a href="http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Society-of-the-Spectacle_Cover_Lauren-Purje.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-313586" src="http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Society-of-the-Spectacle_Cover_Lauren-Purje.jpeg" alt="The Society of the Spectacle_Cover_Lauren Purje" width="700" height="592" srcset="http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Society-of-the-Spectacle_Cover_Lauren-Purje.jpeg 1400w, http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Society-of-the-Spectacle_Cover_Lauren-Purje-213x180.jpeg 213w, http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Society-of-the-Spectacle_Cover_Lauren-Purje-768x650.jpeg 768w, http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Society-of-the-Spectacle_Cover_Lauren-Purje-1024x866.jpeg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"></a> Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle" onclick="__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle', 'La société du spectacle');">La société du spectacle</a> (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer culture. The book examines the “Spectacle,” Debord’s term for the everyday manifestation of capitalist-driven phenomena; advertising, television, film, and celebrity.

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