The Society of the Spectacle (Critical Editions)

To be kept in arm's reach whenever society lacks sense.

An essential for our daily lives nowadays, not the only perspective but offers a great and wide analysis of the images that mediate our society.

Guy Debord seems to be prescient in his ideas. He's a very clear thinker who seems to have truly understood an aspect of modernity others have missed. In some ways, he goes beyond Marx and gives us a meta perspective of the world we live in.I only wonder how much of this book was lost in translation (and by corollary, how much was found).The book is a little hard to read. Parts where I was aware of what he was trying to communicate seemed to be extremely articulate. Parts which were new avenues of thought I found hard to read, but leave me hopeful that I'll understand as my own thinking and observations mature.

thought-provoking

How even French people suffered through this is impossible to fathom.