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Archive of Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

    Verso Books
    24 August 2021
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    Should We All Log Off? Verso Student Reading on the Politics of Digital Culture

    How should we conceive the digital economy? All these books are 40% off until the end of September.

    Verso Books
    22 August 2021
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    Sociology: Verso Student Reading

    Our Sociology reading for the academic year ahead.

    11 March 2021
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    Nothing is Any Longer the Opposite of Anything: Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle Today

    Eric-John Russell demonstrates why a return to Guy Debord's most famous work is all the more pressing at a time when irrationality no longer takes anyone by surprise.

    Verso Books
    28 May 2020
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    Out of the Verso archive

    ... and back in print! From Stuart Hall to Ellen Meiksins Wood, stock up on these classic works of theory and politics.

    Andy Merrifield
    17 May 2018
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    “Fulfillment was already there”: Debord & ’68

    Andy Merrifield discusses the influence of Guy Debord and the Situationist International on the events of May '68.

    Verso Books
    16 May 2018
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    '68 and the Situationists: A Reading List

    A reading list to celebrate works of and inspired by the Situationist International, on the 50th anniversary of the May 1968 uprisings.

    Andy Merrifield
    24 May 2017
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    Debord and Marquez at Fifty

    This year sees the Golden Jubilee of Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Both are darkly pessimistic texts that speak to our times. They pinpoint the shortcomings of the 1960s generation as much as embody its utopian desires. They transmit a strange optimism, a backdoor sense of hope, and offer another take on what our lives might be.

    In this essay Andy Merrifield, author of The Amateur, looks at the importance of these texts on their 50th Anniversary.

    J. Hoberman
    02 December 2016
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    The Entertainer: Trump l’oeil

    Edwy Plenel
    05 July 2016
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    The legitimate condemnation of a bankrupt government

    John Foot
    08 October 2015
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    Taking over the asylum: Critical psychiatry, Franco Basaglia and social struggle—By John Foot

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