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Pages: 124, Paperback, AKPress

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From: Amazon Posted: May 08, 2008 Type: User Review One of the most important -- and influential -- books of our age

Guy Debord's THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE is one of the most widely quoted and important works of the past fifty years. Society as spectacle has become one of the most frequently used descriptors for modern consumer society and the media that...
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From: Amazon Posted: Dec 27, 2007 Type: User Review In the long line of Marxist tracts

Debord was a key member of the Situationists, that notable group of Parisien flaneurs (well, drunks, to be frank) who thought that by traversing the patchwork of the city on foot they could bring down the imposter structures of capitalist society...
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From: Amazon Posted: Aug 09, 2007 Type: User Review Bad translation? This isn't readable at all.

I'm not sure if the translation is confusing, or the ideas being presented are confusing, or both. But this philosophical book is a lot of words written without saying much. I'm writing this because I purchased the book after reading the 17...
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From: Amazon Posted: Feb 09, 2007 Type: User Review One of the most important books of the 20th Century

Read it and find out why...
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From: Amazon Posted: Apr 12, 2006 Type: User Review This should be required reading for first years.

I haven't read any of the other translations of this text, however, this one reads quite fluidly.

The scope of the book sets the tone for one's consideration of contemporary events and societal relations. As research for a project on...
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