Society_of_the_Spectacle Society_of_the_Spectacle

Society of the Spectacle - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Ballet, Blazon, Bomb, Charade, Cosmorama, Curiosity, Cyclorama, Dash, Demonstration, Dialogue


Stam (2000) notes that "Postmodernism was anticipated without the term in Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle (1967), where the French situationist argued that everything that had once been directly lived had in the contemporary world transmuted into a representation". (Stam 2000:300)

See Situationist International

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