GUY DEBORD 
                 THE 
            SOCIETY 
             OF  THE 
         SPECTACLE 
          Translated and annotated by Ken  Knabb 
             GUY DEBORD 
                  THE 
              SOCIETY 
               OF  THE 
            SPECTACLE 
         Translated and annotated by Ken Knabb 
              Bureau of Public Secrets 
      Guy Debord's La Societe du Spectadl} was originally published in Paris 
      by Editions Buchet-Chastel (1967) and was reissued by Editions 
      Champ Libre (1971) and Editions Gallimard (1992). 
      This annotated translation by Ken Knabb, published in 2014 by 
      the Bureau of Public Secrets, is not copyrighted. Anyone may freely 
      reproduce or adapt any or all of it. 
      ISBN 978-0-939682-06-5 
      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013951566 
      Book and cover design: Jeanne Smith 
      Printed in Canada 
      BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS 
      P.O. Box 1044, Berkeley CA 94701 
      www.bopsecrets.org 
                                                    Contents 
                  PREFACE  V 
            1.    Separation Perfected  1 
           2.  The Commodity as Spectacle  13 
           3.  Unity and Division Within Appearances  21 
           4.     The Proletariat as Subject and Representation  31 
           5.  Time and History  67 
           6.      Spectacular Time  81 
            7.    Territorial Management  89 
            8.     Negation and Consumption Within Culture  97 
           9.  Ideology Materialized  113 
                  NOTES  119 
                   INDEX  147