The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord - Full Audiobook

The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century.
Table of contents:
0:00 - 1. Separation Perfected
23:38 - 2. The Commodity as Spectacle
41:11 - 3. Unity and Division Within Appearances
1:03:19 - 4. The Proletariat as Subject and Representation
2:29:30 - 5. Time and History
3:02:06 - 6. Spectacular Time
3:16:36 - 7. Territorial Management
3:31:43 - 8. Negation and Consumption Within Culture
4:07:10 - 9. Ideology Materialized
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[@DS-tz4lk]

The Situationist International really opened up my eyes to the spectacle

[@NO-LIVAS]

What about the cacophony society

[@hal0]

debord gets his point across so much better than baudrillard. his writing style is actually understandable! great read, always interested in the concept of simulation

[@thatyoutubechannel9953]

This is definitely going to need a relisten, I feel like it's going over my head by an inch lol

[@theoryaudiobooks9635]

It is undeniably a difficult work that is deeply embedded in a relatively niche philosophical tradition. No one can rightfully claim that they fully grasped this work or any of the type upon first reading/listening; this kind of understanding requires serious intellectual labor and time to truly blossom.

[@grahampreston615]

The most important section is the one on circular time and historical time. If you understand that, imo, you will understand the whole theory.

[@SkarmoryMelee]

its because the author seems to be circling himself with big words to stroke his ego rather than just being concise

[@keyofdoornarutorscat]

@@SkarmoryMelee French

[@njm2699]

@@SkarmoryMelee give him a break he’s French. During that whole period they had a huge issue w that type of intellectual ego.

[@sugarraywbc]

Absolutely amazing and the book remains a classic.

[@vincentkeehl8429]

Thanks for this! I’ve been trying to find time to read this forever and your video allowed me to listen to and understand it on my commute

[@HudsonValleyVHS]

I have had this on my shelf for a fifteen years and I have ever read it, it's the kind of book you buy for .50 because it looks really cool. My physical copy's Translation is extremely different than the video.

[@ChickenIandlEggs]

So much has changed in 3 years since this was released with AI making commodities out of life, music and even live acting.. can’t imagine what Guy Deborr would think about the world now, let alone what’s ahead of us.

[@mariekehogan8916]

Got dumped for literally not being emaciated. Went straight to this, THANK YOU.

[@lettersfromanihilist9092]

That’s fucked dude

[@allietarasova3560]

Wtf

[@kiemiejaa8918]

yas! needed this, thank you

[@TheEpochCompanion]

Excellent, thank you for this!

[@HipYupster]

Thank you for this. Please keep it up!

[@rich6588]

Thank you for this! It was very useful to read at same time as listening to you. Very dense text, the Tom Nicholas video helped also. Thanks!

[@shakespearaamina9117]

Such an amazing read!!! Thank you!

[@zagobelim]

Great reading, very clear! Thank you very much!

[@Moribus_Artibus]

"As long as necessity is socially dreamed, dreaming will remain necessary. The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep"

[@austintillman8297]

This is fascinating stuff. Thanks for the audiobook!

[@strega1380]

Thank you for this

[@Redknowledge.c]

Peter Joseph's movie interreflections brought me here.👍🏾

[@adamf.9835]

Great job!👏

[@mjnoon3609]

Thanks man! now that's a real praxis.

[@bluntsage8616]

Thank you❤

[@AlemanJuan]

I don't have twitter so i had no other way than the comments to ask what books you're planning and say you're inspiration for me, i want to stop being hard on myself (once when i posted myself reading something someone commented this person can't pronounce words and my confidence was destroyed) and just get some form of work out that makes me feel engaged and alive. i like the works you choose and i'm sure your next ones will be just as vital. you say it's loud where you live i think you can adjust some microphones to be sensitive to nearer instead of far away sounds. sounds like you have a pretty good microphone, maybe it can do something like that to help your sleep schedule

[@theoryaudiobooks9635]

I wasn't immediately a very good narrator at all, I absolutely loathe to hear anything I recorded when I first started out, and I definitely still haven't really learned to stop being hard on myself also ahahah. It's fundamentally down to practice practice practice and trying to get yourself out there. It is not easy and most of the times its not very fun, but worth it in the long run. Also the problem more with background noise here are very loud things like power tools and motors that often run during the day very near by. Even the most cardioid of microphones would still pick it up, bit unfortunate. Thanks for writing though, I wish you the best.

[@AlemanJuan]

@@theoryaudiobooks9635 dang that's too bad i live in a really small town and i still hear loud noises all day. i don't know what you can do about that but i know the struggle. thanks for doing what you're doing!

[@skiphoffenflaven8004]

Oh Guy, it has only gotten worse.

[@user-ep6sq6kc5p]

Adorno was right

[@user-ep6sq6kc5p]

Adorno was right

[@sltfilho]

Guy’s reaction to Instagram, can we even imagine that?

[@Phatdude1337]

I agree %10000, guy would’ve been depressed if he saw how right he was today.

[@mysteryfestival7430]

I love that this has one dislike.

[@cvestick]

Yes!! I LOVE your voice and cadence, you read it as though you understand it which helps listeners to glean understanding too. Please consider reading Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread, as there arent any easily accessible readings that have this quality.

[@monsieurlepenguin6602]

Hood classic!

[@alexander191297]

Scary, because we are actually living in a world governed by spectacle... Where this spectacle even manages to destroy our personal relationships (just look at people stating at their phones when you talk to them).

[@NathanDudani]

It's been moving that way since the mid to late 1700s

[@hotelmario510]

You did not understand the book. Stop mistaking Banksy for actually reading theory and read some fucking theory.

[@alexander191297]

@@hotelmario510 Everyone, this person here is smarter than the brightest minds of both, the present and the past. So smart that - in fact - they realise how virtuous the act of smart-assing is. Give them a Nobel prize.

[@syn5757]

@@hotelmario510 chill tf out everyone has their own interpretations

[@alexander191297]

@@syn5757 Agreed. That’s the beauty of books. Everyone interprets them differently, but that doesn’t make one interpretation more or less correct than another!

[@sigmavitali333]

Need more DEBORD!!! Where’s the rest of the book?!

[@childintime6453]

which translation is the best?

[@queersnowflake]

❤

[@RtheTerrible]

The empire never ended.

[@Abhinav-xs5jx]

Personal Bookmarks 3:15:30

[@Moribus_Artibus]

"What produces society's abstract power also produces its concrete lack of freedom."

[@rbp2743]

You going to do a Patreon eventually?

[@theoryaudiobooks9635]

I dont know, I feel uncomfortable asking people for money really.

[@rbp2743]

@@theoryaudiobooks9635 Understandable - but you can always keep the content free - but subscriptions as optional. :)

[@nazaren45]

👍

[@leosaad5727]

30:42 bookmark

[@leosaad5727]

42:27

[@thomaspalazzolo5902]

You sound very much like the gentleman who hosts the Academy of Ideas series.

[@theoryaudiobooks9635]

I do not know what that series is but I'll take it as a compliment. Thank you very much.

[@thomaspalazzolo5902]

@@theoryaudiobooks9635 Philosophical and psychological series of lectures.

[@davidnorris166]

@@theoryaudiobooks9635 it's a compliment

[@JA-nl9el]

@@theoryaudiobooks9635 I thought you sounded like CCK philosophy. This seems like something he would do.

[@dontaskwhatkindofmusic]

did you post capitalist realism before?

[@spencedelic]

You probably mean capitalist realism by Mark Fisher?

[@HolaItsM3]

Some where between Adversarial Patches & Object Detection, I arrived here 😅

[@tommypasmrchannel8567]

Why this man care so much about glasses..

[@mortemsteam]

1:46:23

[@mortemsteam]

2:49:51

[@mortemsteam]

3:00:59

[@Moribus_Artibus]

What does he mean by this comment "individual reality is allowed to appear only so far as it is not real"

[@ludviglidstrom6924]

Not a tankie apparently…

[@primaprimavera357]

И что теперь будет? Страшно. 😱

[@JoshuaShepherd]

Who knew over-enunciation could be so annoying? Anyway, it's a lot of reading to get an audiobook out there. Thanks for that. Maybe relax a little on the next one?

[@theoryaudiobooks9635]

A lot of my intention behind how I narrated this one was to really emphasize the polemic nature of this work. I wanted to really realize it a lot more on the sentence-by-sentence basis which I think has a far greater importance for SotS than many other works of theory. I can understand what you mean though, trust me no one finds my audiobooks more annoying than I do!

[@strega1380]

Who knew an entitled comment could be so annoying? Maybe stfu a little on the next one.

[@JoshuaShepherd]

Now now little @Strega, it’s ok. Over-delivery is a thing.

[@frncscbtncrt]

Human nature: you get 4 hours of narration of a hard to get book and you not only criticize but feel you have the right to boss around the one who presents you with the gift. What an AH and what a deplorable comment.

[@worfsonofmogh1154]

I think it sounded great. But then, I listened on 1.25 speed which takes care of it. I think the reading style mirrors that rather turgid style that Debord writes in. Although perhaps that's more to do with the translation than how it would sound in French. I

[@balsarmy]

Even though I actually dislike leftists, but this book is amazing. It is explaining those left who I dislike

[@xwsftassell]

Who's narrating this? Kermit the frog?

[@Karoltos]

I ordered this book from Amazon, but my order was canceled. Then I discovered your audiobook, which made me realize how worthless this book is. Thanks for saving me money.

[@d00dl3SEd]

Terrible narration

[@AriadSantana]

one of the best 🙏

[@dirtycelinefrenchman]

The second half really pays off if you can stick with it

[@dirtycelinefrenchman]

As if anticipating the neoliberal transformation about to come: “The goal remains the same: to restructure society without community.”

[@dirtycelinefrenchman]

Good work, consumer capitalism

[@dirtycelinefrenchman]

218 “The spectacle as a whole is [the spectator’s) mirror sign, presenting illusory escapes from a universal autism.”

[@dirtycelinefrenchman]

172 on urban space as representing the the “pseudo-community” of isolated individuals

[@dirtycelinefrenchman]

Doomerism as “outraged goodwill”