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Old 09-12-2017, 12:00 AM   #5871 (permalink)
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Old 09-12-2017, 12:27 PM   #5872 (permalink)
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Just arrived - Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle (1970 first English translation)

Touted as "the Das Kapital of the 20th century" and cited as the primary theoretical work of the situationist movement, it is an enduringly provocative work of political and cultural theory.

I first encountered it after watching Debord's 1974 film and the fantastic 4-part The Century of the Self, (one of my all-time favorite documentary films).

Looking forward to this read.



UPDATE: A post-read response...

Society of the Spectacle was a thought-provoking but emotionally-trying read. Debord paints a world of debilitating, paralytic isolation. He describes society’s collective submission to a life of ceaseless consumption, inactivity, and artifice - a conscious-less and complete obsession with image and the superficial.

Debord describes and attempts to explain how the concrete manufacture of alienation, estrangement, disunity, and commodity fetishism has attained a total occupation of social life. The chapters present a dismal barrage of a world built of false choice, banality, pseudo-need, submission, dehumanization, falsification, and frenzied consumption. His morose depiction of the modern age is characterized by the fraud of satisfaction, illusory community, and purely Orwellian terminology like “unfreedom” and “unreason.”

The text is dry, dark, dense, and exhaustingly dire. There is a perpetual hopelessness in Debord’s framing of contemporary culture - an endless blind subservience to our material masters. I’m left feeling an intense desire to live the antithesis of the described superficial ideology. I’m inspired to seek experiences beyond the urbanized cyclical milieu of repetition and familiarity, which is very much in the spirit of the situationist movement which followed in the early 1970s, (though I am hardly inclined to approach so dogmatic a philosophy).

The world Debord describes is inherently divisive and lonely. Reading this text evokes an emotive response to seek connectedness and to find unity in the world I make for myself. It reinforces my yearning for intimate and meaningful human relationships, and my decision to cherish, embrace, and truly experience the seemingly inconsequential moments-between-moments in my daily life.
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Not too far in, but it seems good so far. It's definitely a product of its time (the late 1950s), but the writing is great.
Finally finished this. I still think Updike's writing is really good but I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I hated Rabbit, hated pretty much every other major character in the story, and I found the novel incredibly depressing. On the other hand, for whatever reason, I still kind of want to read the other three Rabbit books.
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Cozy at a local cafe with the latest book to hit my doorstep - Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O'Donohue.

I really enjoyed Anam Cara and am looking forward to the positive perspective this text will bring me.

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