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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?
2. What did Hegel interpret according to Chapter 4?
3. As it accumulates, where does Chapter 2 say that capital spreads to?
4. What ushers in the class struggles of the long revolutionary periods, according to Hegel?
5. The Bourgeois Era was eager to give history what kind of foundation?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Debord mean when he says that the spectacle should be viewed as "a weltanschauung"?
2. What role did Hegel have in interpreting the world?
3. What three things does the spectacle become, as explained in thesis 3?
4. How does Debord believe the spectacle emerges as the totality of social life?
5. What is the relationship between commodity and consumption within the spectacle, according to Chapter 3?
6. Why is the loss of quality so obvious at every level of the language of the spectacle in Chapter 2?
7. What is the commodity cycle within the spectacle, according to Chapter 3?
8. What is the difference between socialist revolution and anarchist revolution in Chapter 4?
9. What is the struggle between proletarian conception and bourgeois conception, as it is described at the beginning of Chapter 3?
10. How does the spectacle "epitomize the prevailing model of social life," according to Debord?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the relationship between the spectacle and religion? How does the spectacle separate man from his spiritual self, according to Debord?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Debord's dual interpretations of time and how time operates within the spectacle.
Essay Topic 3
How is the society of the spectacle "ideology par excellence"? What is the nature of ideology, according to Debord?
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