![]() ![]() That being said, the larger events, such as burning man itself, tend to have a hidden capitalist underbelly where people use money to hire other people to set up their camps, and things like this. It's one of the 'ten principals of burning man'. Pointing the finger clearly at those who benefit from the logic of domination, Debord’s Comments convey the revolutionary impulse at the heart of situationism. Regional burning man events are, by principal, decomodified. Resolutely refusing to be reconciled to the system, Debord trenchantly slices through the doxa and mystification offered tip by journalists and pundits to show how aspects of reality as diverse as terrorism and the environment, the Mafia and the media, were caught up in the logic of the spectacular society. In Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, published twenty years later, Debord returned to the themes of his previous analysis and demonstrated how they were all the more relevant in a period when the “integrated spectacle” was dominant. First published in 1967, Guy Debords stinging revolutionary critique ofcontemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. ![]() ![]() I have completed various projects engaged with the book and have. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the ideas generated by the events of May 1968 in France, Debord’s pitiless attack on commodity fetishism and its incrustation in the practices of everyday life continues to burn brightly in today's age of satellite televisionand the soundbite. Guy Debords The Society of the Spectacle provides an excellent lens through which to view Chuck Palahniuks Fight Club and the society it leaves. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. The book is, simply, a scan of my copy of The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord. First published in 1967, Guy Debord’s stinging revolutionary critique ofcontemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. ![]()
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