For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture. At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s. Today, Debord's work continues to be in the forefront of debates about the fate of consumer society and the operation of modern social power. In a sweeping revision of Marxist categories, the notion of the spectacle takes the problem of the commodity from the sphere of economics to a point at which the commodity as an image dominates not only economic exchange but the primary communicative and symbolic activity of all modern societies.Guy Debord was one of the most important participants in the activities associated with the Situationist International in the 1960s. Also an artist and filmmaker, he is the author of Memoires and Commentaires sur la societe du spectacle. A Swerve Edition, distributed for Zone Books.

居伊•德波（1931—1994）是20世纪最重要的知识分子革命者之一。作为城市批评家与电影导演、杰出的冒险家和活动家（尤其是在1968年五月风暴中），他既落后于时代，又走在时代前面，其构建的理论服务于民主、人民和政治权力——这些在今天也仍然生机勃勃、富于颠覆性。他最广为人知的身份是一场先锋革命运动以及情境主义国际（1957—1972）的领袖，其代表作是那部控诉了战后资本主义社会中消费主义的经典《景观社会》（1967）。在20世纪50年代，他是卓越的城市战略家；在60年代，他是政治上的揭露者、组织者和理论家；在70年代，他浪迹于西班牙和意大利；而在80年代和90年代初，他则蛰居于奥弗涅的高墙之后，在远离尘嚣的农舍中过着隐士般的生活。 德波的著作和他神秘莫测的一生，始终滋养着世界各地的思想者和活动家。在这本引人入胜的书中，作者生动地讲述了一个自由的灵魂，他与这个世界格格不入，但又热爱着其中的许多东西，并相信它们完全值得为之抗争。