Reading The Society of the Spectacle:
A Reconstruction of Debord’s
Revolutionary Theory of Time
2019
Course Materials:
Week I: The Real Movement and the Fetish Character of the Commodity
Week II: The Time of Human Praxis...
A Lecture on French Hegelianism and Human Time
Week III: ...Versus the Time of Reification
A Lecture on Lukács Beyond Lukács
Week IV: Pseudo-Life and Separate Power
Week V: The History of Revolutionary Thought & Practice
Week VI: The History of History
- Debord, 5: Time and History
- Debord, 6: Spectacular Time
- Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life Vol. 2, Clearing the Ground, section 11 on cyclic & linear time
- Marx & Engels, The German Ideology, Part I: Feuerbach, section C
- Marx & Engels, The German Ideology, Part I: Feuerbach, section D
Week VII: Culture and Non-Communication
- Debord, 7: Territorial Management
- Debord, 8: Negation and Consumption Within Culture
- Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Introduction
- Debord, 9: Ideology Materialized
- Gabel, False Consciousness, excerpts
- Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life Vol. 2, Clearing the Ground, section 20 on ‘the great pleonasm’
Week VIII: Legacy
A New Institute for Social Research