Study on Debord’s Thoughts of Cultural Revolution in the Perspective of Spectacle

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10.2991/icadce-18.2018.55How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Guy Debord; cultural revolution; everyday life; art

Abstract

Based on the context of consumer culture in the second half of the 20th century, Guy Debord puts forward the concept of “spectacle” to criticize the capitalism making use of the mists of spectacle created by the mass media, which causes people to lose their sense of reality, and deepens the degree of alienation. In order to reawaken people’s experience of real life, the important task of the cultural revolution was put forward, and it was finally implemented in levels of both “everyday life” and “art”, and revolutionary tactics such as “dérive” and “detournement” were adopted to try to break the habitual thinking and action so as to acquire the true situation. Cultural and political revolutionary imagination has effectively being promoted in the wakefulness.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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