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The work frames the spectacle as the autocratic reign of the market economy and the set of techniques of government that sustain domination. It explains why the author writes indirectly and selectively, emphasizing the danger of being easily understood and the need to account for readers with differing influence. It also reflects on the continuity of the spectacle after political disturbances, highlighting its self-defense and capacity to adapt.","Comments on the Society of the Spectacle  \nGuy Debord  \n1988  \nContents  \nI 5  \nII. 6  \nIII. 8  \nIV. 10  \nV. 12  \nVI. 13  \nVII. 14  \nVIII. 16  \nIX. 18  \nX. 20  \nXI. 22  \nXII. 23  \nXIII. 25  \nXIV. 28  \nXV. 30  \nXVI. 31  \nXVII. 33  \nXVIII. 35  \nXIX. 38  \nXX. 39  \nXXI. 40  \nXXII. 41  \nXXIII 42  \nXXIV. 43  \nXXV. 45  \nXXVI. 46  \nXXVII. 48  \nXXVIII. 50  \nXXIX. 53  \nXXX. 54  \nXXXI. 57  \nXXXII. 58  \nXXXIII. 60  \nIn memory of Gerard Lebovici, assassinated in Paris on 5 March 1984, in a trap that remains mysterious.1  \n“However critical the situation and circumstances in which you find yourself, despair of nothing; it is on the occasions in which everything is to be feared that it is necessary to fear nothing; it is when one is surrounded by all the dangers that it isnot necessary to dread any; it is when one is without resources that it is necessary to count on all of them; it is when one is surprised that it is necessary to surprise the enemy himself.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War.2  \n1 For more on the assassination of Gerard Lebovici, see Jean-Francois Martos, Words and Bullets: the Condemned of the Lebovici Affair (1984), and Guy Debord, Considerations on the Assassination of Gerard Lebovici (1985) . Note that in his letter to Editions Anagrama dated 7 June 1989, Debord explains that “ambush” is not the word he would use to translate un guet-apens because “I have employed the word that evokes banditry, the style of the hampa,” that is to say “the underworld.” If one could be trapped in such a thing, one might use the word “hit”: Lebovici was assassinated in a (gangland) hit.  \n2 Guy Debord’s epigraph is taken from the first European translation of The Art of War, by the Jesuit JJ.L. Amiot (1782) . The best available English translation, by Samuel B. Griffith (Oxford 1963), does not include this passage. [Malcolm Imrie] And so we have translated directly from Debord’s French.  \nI  \nThese comments are sure to be promptly known by fifty or sixty people; a large number given the times in which we live and the gravity of the matters under discussion. But then, of course, in some circles I am considered to be an authority. It must also be borne in mind that a good half of this elite that will be interested will consist of people who devote themselves to maintaining the spectacular system of domination,1 and the other half of people who persist in doing quite the opposite. Having, then, to take account of readers who are both attentive and diversely influential, I obviously cannot speak with complete freedom. Above all, I must take care not to instruct just anybody.  \nThe unhappiness of the times thus compels me, once again, to write in a new way. Some elements will be intentionally omitted; and the plan will have to remain rather unclear. Readers will encounter certain lures, like the very hallmark of the era. As long as other pages are interpolated here and there, the overall meaning may appear just as secret clauses have very often been added to whatever treaties may openly stipulate2 ; just as some chemical agents only reveal their hidden properties when they are combined with others. However, in this brief work there will be only too many things which are, alas, easy to understand.  \n1 This might sound meglomaniacal, but it is a fact that, in the early 1970s, the French “Socialist” Party used the situationist demand “Change Life” as one of his campaign slogans. (See Theses on the SI and Its Time, thesis 37.) For more on the “Socialist” Party’s recuperation of the situationists, see NOT BORED! review of Jacques Attali’s Noise.  \n2 In the initial agreement that formed the the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949, there was a secret clause that required that, before a nation could join NATO, it must establish its own national security service capable of “Civil Emergency Planning,” that is, of “intervening effectively […] in the event of external socialist aggression or internal political upheavals.” Sometimes called “Operation Stay Behi","cbCaiqisB1Xatvsa","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqisB1Xatvsa","pdf",211020,1,61,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Prefatory material and epigraph\n## Introduction and framing of the critique\n## Continuation of the critique after 1968","[{\"question\":\"What does Debord describe as the modern spectacle?\",\"answer\":\"Debord describes the modern spectacle as the autocratic reign of the market economy, accompanied by techniques of government that come 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