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Free Speech with Doug Lain

Political Theory 101

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The Society's Spectacle of Follow-Up

Guy DeBord was "my first introduction to radical thought," says Gita Boer. His 1988 essay comments on the Society of the Spectacle of Follow-Up resonates with her today, she says. The state's political power as expressed through the media apparatus and in other realms of life constitute the spectacle, writes Boer.

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