The Spectacle 2.0 : Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism

Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord's theory of spectacle within the frame of 21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord's original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, of its posterior revisitation in the 1990s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the concept withi...

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Other Authors: Armano, Emiliana (Editor), Briziarelli, Marco (Editor)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: University of Westminster Press 2017
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