<<Die>> Gesellschaft des Spektakels aus dem Französischen von Jean-Jacques Raspaud ; Kommentare zur Gesellschaft des Spektakels : aus dem Französischen von Wolfgang Kukulies ; Vorwort : zur vierten italienischen Ausgabe von "Die Gesellschaft des Spektak

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and everyday life in the late twentieth cenlury. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord's text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image/information culture. Das ganze Leben der Gesellschaften, in welchen die modernen Produktionsbedingungen herrschen, erscheint als eine ungeheure Sammlung von Spektakeln. IN SOCIETIES dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles.