What was the main topic of Debord's famous 1967 essay?
Civil Rights
Space Exploration
The Society of the Spectacle
Olympic Games
Answer
Debord's influential essay, "The Society of the Spectacle," critiques the modern world as a pervasive system of images that dominate people's lives and alienate them from authentic experience. He argues that this spectacle, driven by capitalism and mass media, reduces human interactions and relations to mere commodities and representations, leading to a society where reality itself becomes a spectacle.
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