Guy Debord - Comentários sobre a Sociedade do Espectáculo

An inseparable companion to a Sociedade do Espectáculo, the Comentários (1988) update and confirm Guy Debord's earlier theses after twenty years, presenting the notion of the “integrated spectacular”: a global concept that brings together the “diffuse spectacular” of the American way of life and the “concentrated” one of totalitarian regimes, poured into the increasingly sophisticated manipulation of human desires, operated by states and the media in the name of well-oiled modern capitalism.

This assessment by the author, when the spectacle had become even more irrational and omnipresent than he had predicted in 1967 - which reviews lies and counter-information as techniques for achieving and maintaining power, the psychology of mass submission, the phenomenon of celebrity worship - continues to speak loud and clear, with insight, to the contemporary world in which we live.