
Situationism
Guy Debord
1931–1994
“The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation.”
Guy Debord was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, and founding member of the Situationist International. His book The Society of the Spectacle is a critique of consumer capitalism and remains highly influential in political philosophy and art theory.
Contribution
Society of the Spectacle, détournement, psychogeography
Key Works
- • The Society of the Spectacle
- • Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
- • Panegyric