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‘The Society Of The Spectacle’ Unpacks And Updates A 1967 Manifesto – Deadline

In 1967 French thinker Guy Debord published an influential philosophical treatise, La Société du Spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle), which argued that we had become a society of images, in which representation had replaced authentic experience and interaction. He argued that this development fetishized consumption, serving the purposes of capitalism. In the 55+ years since the book’s publication, media…