Situationist International
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The Situationist International was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its f
Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author Asger Jorn, founding member of the Situationist International.
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The Society of the Spectacle
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The Society of the Spectacle is a 1967 work of philosophy and Marxist critical theory by Guy Debord where he develops and presents the concept of the Spectacle. The book is considered a seminal text f
Situationist International
…creative output and influence in 1967 and 1968, with the former marking the publication of the two most significant texts of the situationist movement, The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord and The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem. The expressed writing and political theory of the two aforementioned texts, along…
Cover of the first edition
Spectacular advertising depicts not only the commodity but also a world centered on its appreciation.
Debord saw the spectacular celebration of commodities as a sophisticated counterpart to the propaganda of bureaucratic systems.
1983 edition of Society of the Spectacle