The Society of the Spectacle

[Enragé]

Has anyone here read The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du Spectacle) by Guy Debord? I watched the film version and it blew me away really, though i didnt really get it completely.

In any case, i was thinking of buying the book (cuz i cant get it in libraries), but i dont want to spend money (which i dont really have alot of) on something that really is too fucking vague (though, as i said, the film blew me away, it was all kinda vague, hard to understand), so i'd like to hear some opinions on the book so i can make up my mind ^^

[Bilan]

I have, and I think it's fucking brilliant. I love Guy Debord.
The book I think is bit strangely structured, but definitley worth it.
If you don't want to spend money on it, it is online, you can find it in many places,

Here, for example. (http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/16)
Along with other Situationist and Debord texts.

♥

[Enragé]

ok cool :)

Nah, i think im gonna buy it, i dont like reading whole books online, and it would be a great start of my collection of awesome books (: (well, i have Capital, but by the time i've finished that i'll be 80 or something, that book really is the most shittiest to read of all the books i've ever read :P )

Besides, found a place where it's only 10 euros, i can spare that

On achete ton bonheur. Vole-le. :star:

[which doctor]

You can print it off the internet. It's a pretty short book.

[Dros]

Really awesome book. Don't agree with everything he says elsewhere but it is a really awesome critic of consumerism. You don't need to buy it. It's online in full here. (http://marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm)