![]() ![]() The text presents an extensive reinterpretation of the philosophy of Marx, with particular focus on commodity fetishism and contemporary mass media. Each thesis is briefabout a paragraph in length. Translation of: Commentaires sur la societe du spectacle. The Society of the Spectacle is a philosophical text presented in nine chapters and 221short theses. Comments on the society of the spectacle / Guy Debord translated. 1931- Comments on the society of the spectacle. 1988 This edition published by V erso 1990 © Editions Gerard Lebovici 1988 Translation © Malcolm Imrie 1990 All rights reserved Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London WIV 3HR USA: 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001-2291 Verso is the imprint of New Left Books British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Debord, Guy L. In Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, publishedtwenty years later, Debord returned to the themes of his previousanalysis and demonstrated how they were. First published by Editions Gerard Lebovici. 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. ![]()
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