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The Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord

La société du spectacle (Paris: Buchet-Chastel, 1967)

Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith (New York: Zone Books, 1994)
see also alternative translations by Fredy Perlman (1977) and Ken Knabb (2001)

	Preface to the Fourth Italian Edition (1979)
	Preface to the Third French Edition (1992)
I	Separation Perfected
II	The Commodity as Spectacle
III	Unity and Division Within Appearances
IV	The Proletariat as Subject and Representation
V	Time and History
VI	Spectacular Time
VII	Environmental Planning
VIII	Negation and Consumption in the Cultural Sphere
IX	Ideology in Material Form
	Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988)