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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. In thesis 20, the spectacle is the material reconstruction of what?
2. What is the negative form of the consciousness of desire, in Debord's opinion?
3. What year did Marx's revolution fail?
4. What is the pivotal issue that Debord thinks is ignored in revolutionary theory?
5. Because of the spectacle, society does not need to exercise economic ______ in Chapter 3.
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the loss of quality so obvious at every level of the language of the spectacle in Chapter 2?
2. How has the commodity turned the whole planet into a single world market, according to Debord?
3. How do Russia and the Bolshevik Revolution demonstrate the problems of an educated proletariat?
4. What is the struggle between proletarian conception and bourgeois conception, as it is described at the beginning of Chapter 3?
5. How does Debord believe the spectacle negates life?
6. What is the difference between socialist revolution and anarchist revolution in Chapter 4?
7. What does Debord mean when he says that the spectacle should be viewed as "a weltanschauung"?
8. What does Debord mean when he says the spectacle is "the sun that never sets..." in thesis 13?
9. What historical moment does the spectacle correspond to, according to Debord?
10. How is a celebrity viewed by Debord as an individual within the spectacle?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss both the narrative tone and structure of The Society of the Spectacle and their impact on the reader's experience.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the life and work of Guy Debord, his Marxist theories, and their impact on economic and political philosophies.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the differences between socialism, communism, and capitalism, and their respective places within the society of the spectacle.
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