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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 religion does Debord believe is successful at adapting to spectacular society?

2. What must be historically manufactured in order to maintain the growth of the modern state bureaucracy in Chapter 7?

3. Cyclical time started with what group of people in Chapter 5?

4. What are the temples of frenetic consumption in Chapter 7?

5. Debord characterizes time in a classless society as being what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference between cyclical time and irreversible time in Debord's opinion?

2. What has the capitalist production system done to space in society, according to Chapter 7?

3. What is culture, according to Debord?

4. What are the alienating factors of urbanization in Chapter 7?

5. What is the relationship between time and the bourgeoisie, according to Debord?

6. How does Christianity play a role in measuring global time, in Debord's opinion?

7. What is the pseudo community in Chapter 7?

8. According to Debord, what is the problem when an ideology becomes the goal and not the means of a revolution?

9. What is the importance of critical theory, according to Debord?

10. Why do societies organize time, according to Debord?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is ironic in both the tone and content of The Society of the Spectacle?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the culture of the spectacle and the long term impact Debord believes it has on knowledge and art.

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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