The continued unfolding of our epoch has merely confirmed and further illustrated the theory of the spectacle.
(Naturally, the same principle will be applied to my other books, all of which are to be republished by Gallimard I am not someone who revises his work.)Ī critical theory of the kind presented here needed no changing – not as long, at any rate, as the general conditions of the long historical period that it was the first to describe accurately were still intact. The text of this third edition is also identical to that of 1967. That edition was reprinted regularly until 1991. A second edition, strictly unaltered, was issued in 1971 by Editions Champ Libre, a publishing house whose name was changed to Editions Gérard Lebovici in 1984 in the wake of the murder of the publisher. The disturbances of 1968 made the book known. La Société du spectacle was first published in November 1967 by the Paris publishers Buchet-Chastel. The extraordinary new conditions in which this entire generation has lived constitute a comprehensive summary of all that, henceforth, the spectacle will forbid and also all that it will permit.”- Guy Debord (1988) Read more Quite simply, the spectacle’s domination has succeeded in raising a whole generation moulded to its laws. “In all that has happened in the last twenty years, the most important change lies in the very continuity of the spectacle. 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. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s 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 century. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle.
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