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Rethinking the Spectacle
Guy Debord, Radical Democracy, and the Digital Age
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Devin Penner
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
Spectacle is usually considered a superficial form of politics, which tries to distract and deceive a passive audience. It is difficult to see how this type of politics could be reconciled with the democratic requirement of active and informed agency. Rethinking the Spectacle re-examines the tension between spectacle and political agency in our hyper-mediated digital society. Devin Penner uses the theories and practices of Guy Debord and the Situationist International as a point of departure, offering both a critical review of Situationist ideas and a way to develop their radical democratic potential in the current political climate. Emphasizing the importance of thinking about the connection between spectacle and broader democratic processes, Rethinking the Spectacle also looks at various models of social and political organization and includes an in-depth assessment of the 2011 Occupy movement. Ultimately, Rethinking the Spectacle concludes that properly conceived spectacle can in fact mobilize the public for egalitarian purposes.
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Devin Penner is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Studies at Trent University. He is a coeditor of, and contributor to, Thinking Radical Democracy: The Return to Politics in Post-War France.
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Lasse Thomassen, Reader, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London:
Rethinking the Spectacle brings Guy Debord and the Situationists into conversation with contemporary theories of radical democracy in this novel and important book.
Rethinking the Spectacle brings Guy Debord and the Situationists into conversation with contemporary theories of radical democracy in this novel and important book.
Richard Gilman-Opalsky, author of Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy:
Guy Debord was one of the greatest radical thinkers of the twentieth century, and his work is increasingly resonant in the twenty-first. In Rethinking the Spectacle, Devin Penner introduces readers to Debord’s theories and their relevance to current debates about radical democracy in the information society.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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The Spectacle in Theory
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Practical Implications
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Rethinking the Spectacle 1
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Rethinking the Spectacle 2
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The Spectacular Politics of the 2011 Occupy Movement
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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