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	The Society of the Spectacle (1) (Debord)
		In analyzing the spectacle we are obliged to a certain extent to use the spectacle’s own language, in the sense that we have to operate on the methodological terrain of the society that expresses itself in the spectacle.
		The spectacle inherits the weakness of the Western philosophical project, which attempted to understand activity by means of the categories of vision, and it is based on the relentless development of the particular technical rationality that grew out of that form of thought.
		The spectacle was born from the world’s loss of the unity, and the immense expansion of the modern spectacle reveals the enormity of this loss.
	www.bopsecrets.org /SI/debord/1.htm (2722 words)

	U B U W E B :: Guy Debord "Comments on the Society of the Spectacle"
		In 1967, in a book entitled The Society of the Spectacle, I showed what the modern spectacle was already in essence: the autocratic reign of the market economy which had acceded to an irresponsible sovereignty, and the totality of new techniques of government which accompanied this reign.
		It is true that this spectacular critique of the spectacle, which is not only late but, even worse, seeks 'attention' on the same level, inevitably sticks to vain generalities or hypocritical regrets; just as futile as the clowns who parade their well-mannered disillusion in newspapers.
		The society whose modernization has reached the stage of the integrated spectacle is characterized by the combined effect of five principal features: incessant technological renewal; integration of state and economy; generalized secrecy, unanswerable lies; an eternal present.
	www.ubu.com /papers/debord_comments.html (15983 words)

	The Society of the Spectacle : Berichte, Bewertungen, Informationen, Preise
		Society of Spectacle has sometimes been characterized as a kind of dated meditation on consumer society and media, a diatribe on popular culture and pop psychology.
		Debord eposes the fallacies and perceptions of society and its manipulation and subjegation.
		Society of Spectacle is existentialist Marxism, buttressed by Freud and the behavioural sciences maybe, but still one which retains the fundamental qualitative legacy of Marx and the philosophical thread begun with Hegel.
	www.medfools.com /shopde/product/ASIN/0942299795/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle.html (576 words)

	Ms. Taylor History
		Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, published in 1967, serves as one of the clearest expositions of situationist theory, which had significant influence on the 1968 student rebellion in France.
		Life has been reduced to a "spectacle." The notion of the spectacle is the key to their theory.
		The Society of the Spectacle is a major and influential work, albeit perhaps better known in a European intellectual context than our own.
	www.sidwell.edu /us/history/taylor/debord.html (698 words)

	Society of the Spectacle
		The spectacle inherits all the weaknesses of the Western philosophical project which undertook to comprehend activity in terms of the categories of seeing; furthermore, it is based on the incessant spread of the precise technical rationality which grew out of this thought.
		The spectacle originates in the loss of the unity of the world, and the gigantic expansion of the modern spectacle expresses the totality of this loss: the abstraction of all specific labor and the general abstraction of the entirety of production are perfectly rendered in the spectacle, whose mode of being concrete is precisely abstraction.
		The spectacle, as the present social organization of the paralysis of history and memory, of the abandonment of history built on the foundation of historical time, is the false consciousness of time.
	www.marxists.org /reference/archive/debord/society.htm (18794 words)

	The Society of the Spectacle / Voxfux
		The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living.
		The society of the spectacle is on the contrary the form which chooses its own technical content.
		If the spectacle, taken in the limited sense of "mass media" which are its most glaring superficial manifestation, seems to invade society as mere equipment, this equipment is in no way neutral but is the very means suited to its total self-movement.
	www.voxfux.com /features/situationists/sos/soschap1.html (2564 words)

	Society of the Spectacle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Society of the Spectacle is a 1967 book by Guy Debord, which developed concepts relating to modern culture and commodity fetishism.
		Stam (2000) notes that "Postmodernism was anticipated without the term in Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle (1967), where the French situationist argued that everything that had once been directly lived had in the contemporary world transmuted into a representation".
		Other source of complete text for The Society of the Spectacle
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Society_of_the_Spectacle (146 words)

	Guy Debord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His best known works are Society of the Spectacle and Comments on the Society of the Spectacle.
		In broad terms, Debord's theories attempted to account for the spiritually debilitating modernisation of both the private and public spheres of everyday life by the forces of market capitalism during the post-WW2 modernisation of Europe.
		A brief biography and several texts, including Society of the Spectacle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guy_Debord (615 words)

	Bracken:The Spectacle Of Secrecy
		The spectacle separates an individual from his or her being, and as the inheritor of religion, the spectacle is the "material reconstruction of religious illusion."
		III "Unity and Division within Appearance" Spectacular society is at once united and divided: "The unreal unity proclaimed by the spectacle masks the class division on which rests the real unity of the capitalist mode of production." This unity of alienation hides all the false oppositions of the society of the spectacle.
		V "Time and History" Debord goes from the Oriental empires to the empire of the society of the spectacle in sixteen insightful pages, underscoring the fact that history is made by humans, that it depends on the prevailing concept of time.
	www.scenewash.org /lobbies/chainthinker/situationist/bracken/writings/secrecy.html (3452 words)

	Guy Debord
		The society modernized to the stage of the integrated spectacular is characterized by the combined effect of five principal features: incessant technological renewal; fusion of State and economy; generalized secrecy, forgeries without reply; a perpetual present.
		McLuhan himself, the spectacle's first apologist, who had seemed to be the most convinced imbecile of the century, changed his mind when he finally discovered in 1976 that "the pressure of the mass media leads to irrationality," and that it was becoming urgent to modify their usage.
		The spectacle has made the secret triumph, and must always be in the hands of specialists in the secret, who of course are not all of the functionaries who have to different degrees made themselves autonomous with respect to State control; who are not all of the functionaries.
	www.notbored.org /commentaires.html (17029 words)

	A Simplistic Understanding of Debord's "Society of the Spectacle."
		Wrote “Society of the Spectacle” which was published in November 1967 and is partially responsible for longevity and the high profile of situationist ideas
		Public realm of society is seen as synonymous with economics and the economic arena.
		The Spectacle is a hierarchical power that evolves on its own that is concentrated around the separation of the worker and the fruits of his labor: product.
	hyper.vcsun.org /HyperNews/battias/get/coms632/backread/7.html (811 words)

	Maximum Advantage in all Things: The Society of the Spectacle 212-221
		This interconnection is intensified with the advent of the spectacle — the materialization of ideology brought about by the concrete success of an autonomized system of economic production — which virtually identifies social reality with an ideology that has remolded all reality in its own image.
		The spectacle is the acme of ideology because it fully exposes and manifests the essence of all ideological systems: the impoverishment, enslavement and negation of real life.
		The spectacle obliterates the boundaries between self and world by crushing the self besieged by the presence-absence of the world.
	chumpfish.blogspot.com /2005/06/society-of-spectacle-212-221.html (984 words)

	The Society of the Spectacle / Voxfux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		His text, The Society of the Spectacle written in 1967 is one of the greatest theoretical examinations of our socio-cultural condition, describing in pinpoint accuracy, the dreadful corporate globalization craze currently sweeping the planet.
		In 1989 he published his "Commentaries on the Society of the Spectacle" Both texts are chillingly accurate descriptions of the world of simulation and lies that mankind has transformed his life into.
		In December of 1994, at the age of 62, Debord killed himself.
	www.voxfux.com /features/situationists/sos/sos.html (130 words)

	Jigsaw Lounge - The Society of the Spectacle
		The Society of the Spectacle’s soundtrack of consists of Debord reading out long sections of his 1967 tract of the same name, pausing occasionally for brief sections of classical music.
		The flow of information and jargon-filled opinion rapidly becomes impossible to assimilate, and viewers unfamiliar with Debord’s theories and their context will soon tire of his relentless monotone - the choice of images, meanwhile, is only intermittently intriguing, falling a very long way short of this collage-format’s master, Jean-Luc Godard.
		As a philosophical manifesto, Society of the Spectacle does contain many powerful and original ideas — he diagnoses politicans as being ‘corrupted by contempt’ for the public.
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/societyofthespectacle.html (465 words)

	DJ RABBI
		The Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix) is a ten-minute DVD art-loop that uses source material from the writing, images, recordings, and other psychogeographical wanderings of arch-Situationist and French philosopher Guy Debord.
		Offering neither a spectacular critique of the spectacle nor an apology for their own tendencies toward spectacularly accidental juxtapositions, the artists behind the SOS remix host a polysensory potlatch of conceptual and material resistance against the official, separatist amnesia of historical practice.
		The English subtitles are an on-the-fly remix and overwriting of the original text from the Society of the Spectacle film directed by Debord.
	www.djrabbi.com /sos (866 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Society of the Spectacle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I consider "The society of spectacle" as one of human greatest mental (and not only) achievements.
		The mechanisms of spectacle in retrospect together with the ingenius (deep) denial of marxism and post-marxism ideology (better:crisis), are analyzed under the impressive prespective of Debort.
		The alienation of the spectacular to the profit of the contemplated object is expressed in the following way: the more he contemplates, the less he lives; the more he accepts recognizing himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and his own desires.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0942299795 (1306 words)

	The Situationist International Text Library/The Society of the Spectacle
		The Situationist International Text Library/The Society of the Spectacle
		Self-proclaimed leader of the Situationist International, Guy Debord was certainly responsible for the longevity and high profile of Situationist ideas, although the equation of the SI with Guy Debord would be misleading.
		His text The Society of the Spectacle remains today one of the great theoretical works on modern-day capital, cultural imperialism, and the role of mediation in social relationships.
	library.nothingness.org /articles/SI/en/pub_contents/4 (92 words)

	Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status.
		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.
		His other works translated into English include The Society of the Spectacle (many editions) and Panegyric (Verso, 2004).
	www.versobooks.com /books/cdef/d-titles/debord_comments.shtml (268 words)

	SOS Group - Group Resources Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Society of the Spectacle translation by Ken Knabb 2001
		The Society of the Spectacle Preface to the Third French Edition
		SI response to Lefort's criticism of The Society of the Spectacle &c
	sosgroup.omweb.org /modules/wakka/SOS (480 words)

	Netsurfer Books 04.08 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The wicked satire's unrelenting message is that society under totalitarian rule is not very different than one plagued by fl magic.
		The ironically depicted but realistic settings of this book include the writer's union office, a theater, an apartment building, and various public offices which come apart as they are visited by vampires and demons and their brutal sense of humorous justice.
		She also treats issues of contemporary Swedish society (as it was in 1907).
	www.netsurf.com /nsb/sub/v04/nsb.04.08.html (6990 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Society of the Spectacle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture.
		At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s.
		In a sweeping revision of Marxist categories, the notion of the spectacle takes the problem of the commodity from the sphere of economics to a point at which the commodity as an image dominates not only economic exchange but the primary communicative and symbolic activity of all modern societies.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0934868077 (1359 words)

	Chinese Music Society of North America
		Special concerts are highlighted with the enormously popular informance on the musical, cultural, and historical background of the program by Dr. Shen during the concert.
		The Chinese Music Society of North America was organized in the 1960s to increase and diffuse the knowledge of Chinese music and to encourage international exchange.
		The fiddles in silk and bamboo acoustics are supported in ensembles by the end-blown flute, the reed- membrane side-blown flute, the pear-shaped lute known for its five-finger strum, and the grand dulcimer.
	www.chinesemusic.net /concert_lecture_info.asp (2406 words)

	The Society of the Spectacle (News) Julie Madsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Society of the Spectacle (News) Julie Madsen
		Ken Knabb, in his new translation of Guy Debord's book The Society of the Spectacle, aims to more accurately portray the thoughts of the self-proclaimed founder of the 1950s French Situationist movement--a revolution that challenged capitalism's stifling of public creativity.
		The book was, in part, Debord's analysis of cultural transformation in light of the changes taking place in France, and Knabb says that his translation is "Not an ivory-tower academic or philosophical discourse.
	www.utne.com /webwatch/2002_88/news/2807-1.html (90 words)

	Oxford Eprints - The strange respectability of the Situationist City in the Society of the Spectacle.
		Oxford Eprints - The strange respectability of the Situationist City in the Society of the Spectacle.
		The strange respectability of the Situationist City in the Society of the Spectacle.
		Swyngedouw, Erik (2002) The strange respectability of the Situationist City in the Society of the Spectacle.
	eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk /archive/00000904 (238 words)

	Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
		But, for Debord, 1968 -- though it was indeed a modern revolution -- represents an exception to the rule of the society of the spectacle.
		having nowhere overthrown the existing organization of the society from which it springs apparently spontaneously, the spectacle has thus continued to gather strength; that is, to spread to the furthest limits on all sides, while increasing its density in the centre.
		"The society whose modernization has reached the stage of the integrated spectacle is characterized by the combined effect of five principal features," Debord tells us.
	www.notbored.org /comments.html (665 words)

	» The Society of the Spectacle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Leaving aside the question of aesthetic merit (in which regard Debord’s films are incidentally among the most brilliantly innovative works in the history of the cinema), The Society of the Spectacle is certainly the most important radical film ever made.
		Many films have provided a few insights into this or that aspect of modern society, but Debord’s is the only one that presents a consistent critique of the whole global system.
		The Society of the Spectacle is neither an ivory tower “philosophical” discourse nor a helplessly impulsive “protest,” but a ruthlessly lucid examination of the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the society we live in.
	www.greylodge.org /gpc?p=27 (797 words)

	Books : The Society of the Spectacle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This book, and the situationalist in general, started a revolt against dogmatic thought and ideolgy and because of them I have realized that we need to go beyong "left" or radical and re think all our ideas on liberation.
		In time one find he is able to paint a very accurate portrait of modern society.
		Some of Debord's ideas were interesting: his conception of the Spectacle is definitely thought-provoking.
	www.meseta.net /ItemId/0942299795 (510 words)

	Debord Society Of The Spectacle. Click Here For A Complete Listing Of Debord Articles And Books In Engli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The archives of Situationist International English translation The Society of Spactacle and his first film Hurlements en faveur de Sade.
		Articles, film scripts and internal documents by Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem, etc., from the situationists' early Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord) Knabb's new translation of.
		Proclaimed leader of the Situationist International, Guy Debord was certainly responsible for the longevity and although the equation of the SI with Guy Debord would be misleading.
	www.99hosted.com /names7641.html (525 words)

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