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Episode 170: Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Society of the Spectacle

"The message is the medium. What the board is basically trying to, I think in this book, what he's trying to do is highlight that the challenge for a proletariat or a worker revolution is no longer what it was when Marx was writing," she says. "Our authentic interactions with each other and with the world and with nature have been replaced by representations."

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