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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. Who does Debord believe urbanism effectively and dangerously masses together?

2. According to Debord, workers exchange production time for what commodity?

3. What does urbanism institute as it destroys the cities in Chapter 7?

4. Debord considers _______ and surrealism to be the theoretical endpoint for Art.

5. Culture is defined as what in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the pseudo countryside, according to Debord?

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

3. What are the two aspects of culture that were lost as culture ended, according to Chapter 8?

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

5. How does Debord describe fascism?

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

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

8. Where does the individual stand in historic time, according to Chapter 6?

9. What are the two sides of culture that Debord proposes?

10. How is production time only pseudo-cyclical in Chapter 6?

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

What is the relationship between production and the economy described by Debord, in terms of moving from survival to surplus?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the destructive force of the commodity within the spectacle and the effect Debord believes this has on the consumer.

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