There seems to be a huge difference in tone and style: Debord and many of his contemporaries were steeped in an educational system that was basically nineteenth century. But I’m not sure if the connection between the protesters of today and those of 1968 is clear-cut. (My friends in Italy testify to his status among activists there). SB: Ten years after his death, Debord’s influence has never seemed greater: the éminence grise of the events of May ‘ 68 has morphed into the godfather of the anti-globalisation movement. Andrew Hussey, author of The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord. Shane Barry discussed the implications of the revolutionary’s legacy with Dr. Debord’s most famous book, The Society of the Spectacle (1967), consists of 221 aphoristic paragraphs that describe, with Cartesian lucidity, how “Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation”. Yet when the smoke clears, the work will be waiting.

Surrounded by calumnies and myths, the one-time leader of the Situationist International (SI) has become indelibly associated with the euphoria of the Parisian uprising of 1968 and the volatile, often bloody politics of the 1970s. This paper shows the influence of such a society on the poor people of these districts and the way they overcome President Snow.It is somehow grimly appropriate that ten years after he shot himself through the heart, Guy Debord, an acute analyst of how the media can blandly neuter transgressive figures, has become a ‘celebrity’. This research tries to prove that the city of Panem, with its governor President Snow, well represents the society of spectacle. The setting of this novel is Panem which is shown as a dystopia because of its misusing of the modern technologies which are much more developed than our own so that people’s mind will be entrapped within the images produced by these technologies. This paper tries to apply the theory of spectacle to Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games and as the title of the novel is very telling of itself, it revolves around the annual event of Hunger Games connoting the starvation of the poor people in the twelve districts and the Capitol. In fact, by applying these images through different exciting entertainments and shows, the Capitol disperses people more and destroys their unity so that people cannot be united to rebel against the Capitol’s power. Spectacle consists of images such as games, entertainments or television shows which are political tools in the hands of the Capitol to stabilize its power. Debord presents the society of Spectacle as a mere representation of seemingly real images which is used by the capital for its own good. The theory of spectacle is introduced by Guy Debord in his famous book The Society of Spectacle. Sub-Saharan Africa’s Perspective of Distance LearningĬonstructing Education for Self-Realization on the Basis of Plato's Human Psychology: The Nigerian Experienceįostering Quality Teachers in Teacher Education in the Context of Internationalization: Tasks Ahead

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