Debord, Time And Spectacle

Tom Bunyard, Ph.D. (2012), Goldsmiths, is a Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Programme at the University of Brighton. He has published several articles on the relationship between Debord, Hegel and Marx, and works on critical theory and philosophy of history.

“Tom Bunyard’s wide-ranging monograph convincingly casts Debord as ‘a twentieth-century Young Hegelian’ and, through the influence of the young Marx and Lukács, as a thinker of historical praxis.”—Eric-John Russell, Radical Philosophy “Bunyard’s Debord, Time and Spectacle is an impressive contribution to the project of understanding and reconstructing the intellectual context of Debord’s critique of ‘the society of the spectacle’.”—Anthony Paul Hayes, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: RadioactivitySubjectivity, Temporality and Spectacle1 Interpreting the Theory of Spectacle2 Five Aspects of Debord’s Theoretical WorkThe New Beauty: 1951–623 ‘We are Artists Insofar as We are No Longer Artists’4 The Everyday and the Absolute5 ‘Avant-Gardes Have Only One Time’‘Everything that had Formerly been Absolute Became Historical’6 Debord and French Hegelianism7 Subjects and Objects: Debord, Lukács and the Young Marx8 Life and Non-lifeIn Pursuit of the Northwest Passage: 1963–739 Never Work!10 ‘I am Nothing and I Should be Everything’11 The ‘Fetishism of Capital’The Integrated Spectacle: 1974–9412 Moving with History’s ‘Bad Side’13 Strategy and Tactics in the Integrated Spectacle14 The Knight, Death and the DevilBibliographyIndex