Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
8 best books like Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord): Simulacra and Simulation, The Medium is the Massage, Ways of Seeing, A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari, The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume II: The History of Eroticism and Volume III: Sovereignty, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, The Americans, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation
| Author | Jean Baudrillard |
| ISBN | 0472065211 |
The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies...
The Medium is the Massage
| Author | Marshall McLuhan |
| ISBN | 1584230703 |
The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward...
| Author | John Berger |
| ISBN | 0140135154 |
John Berger’s Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener...
| Author | Brian Massumi |
| ISBN | 0262631431 |
I was under the impression that this was a quite inscrutable, singular work of little benefit to understanding the complexities of Capitalism & Schizophrenia - not at all. The line between citation/explanation of the subject texts and original extrapolation/explanation (or the Deleuze-Guattari/Massumi...
| Author | Georges Bataille |
| ISBN | 0942299213 |
The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. In the second and third volumes, The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty, Bataille explores...
| Author | Theodor W. Adorno |
| ISBN | 0804736332 |
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface,...
| Author | Robert Frank |
| ISBN | 3931141802 |
Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a...
Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation
The Good:
--Feminist critique and (often neglected) embrace/control of high-technology is desperately needed, given the alarming centralization of technological reach and power under capitalism.
The Bad:
--The delivery needs a complete overhaul if a wider audience is desired....
