![]() ![]() With its descriptions of human social life subsumed by technology and images, it is often cited as a prophecy of the dangers of the internet age now upon us. “The Society of the Spectacle” is still relevant today. It was a thin book in a plain white cover, with an obscure publisher and an author who shunned interviews, but its impact was immediate and far-reaching, delivering a social critique that helped shape France’s student protests and disruptions of 1968. ![]() Nearly 50 years ago, Guy Debord’s “The Society of the Spectacle” reached bookshelves in France. ![]()
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