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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. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?

2. What is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?

3. In Debord's opinion, the spectacle is an heir to the ______ of Western philosophy.

4. Debord sees Marxist theory as what?

5. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Debord see as the difference between Marx and Hegel?

2. How is a celebrity viewed by Debord as an individual within the spectacle?

3. How does Debord believe the spectacle negates life?

4. How does the spectacle "epitomize the prevailing model of social life," according to Debord?

5. What is the relationship between commodity and consumption within the spectacle, according to Chapter 3?

6. What are the byproducts of celebrity, according to Chapter 3?

7. What role does Debord believe celebrity plays in the spectacle?

8. How is the "commodity world" shown for what it really is, in Debord's opinion?

9. What three things does the spectacle become, as explained in thesis 3?

10. How does Debord believe the spectacle emerges as the totality of social life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Debord's dual interpretations of time and how time operates within the spectacle.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the differences between socialism, communism, and capitalism, and their respective places within the society of the spectacle.

Essay Topic 3

What is the purpose of The Society of the Spectacle? What is the greater truth that Debord illustrates?

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