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Ok who recommended this trash and why?

>> No.17309548

k keep me posted

>> No.17309569
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17309569

>>17309250
filtered

>> No.17309711

>>17309250
He wrote a commentary on the book - if you didn't get it.

>> No.17309737

>>17309250

Books whose appeal is 70% either the cover or title

>> No.17309743

I thought this book was spectacular, I don't know what OP's complaining about

>> No.17309773

>cost 8 quid
Yep we're really living in the spectacle alright.

>> No.17309900

the english translation is trash, filtered

>> No.17310030

>>17309711
>>17309743
>>17309569
>>17309900
Schizo marxist version of Plato's allegory of the cave with capitalism as a scapegoat. It's really embarrassing

>> No.17310122

>>17309250
I found it mostly incomprehensible and then halfway through it's just WE NEED GOMMUNISM.

Read Baudrillard instead.

>> No.17310139

just watch the movie

>> No.17310225

>>17310122
>I found it mostly incomprehensible
>Read Baudrillard instead
lol

>> No.17310305

>>17310122
>halfway through
The whole book is just that.

>> No.17310319

>>17309743
lol

>> No.17310327

>>17310225
I found Consumer Society to be quite easy to read. I read them both about two weeks apart.

>> No.17310369

>>17310327
>>17310122
Is Baudrillard at least higher IQ than this midwit?

>> No.17310479

>>17310369
Baudrillard dropped communism so yes

>> No.17310560

It's a good demonstration to why you should be wary of books filled with vaguery. Read other French thinkers of the same era and see the difference, sense how much more they feel the weight of their ideas and want to be understood.

>> No.17310593

>>17309250
Does an author offing himself proves he was a real deal? Same with Weininger and Elliot.

>> No.17310673

>>17310593
Proves he was mentally ill. It's fine for artists, but a huge red flag for philosophers.

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>>17309250
>getting filtered by debord

>> No.17310874

>>17310673
Well he fought the Spectacle and the Spectacle won, what was there to do?

>> No.17310931

>>17310874
Not be a schizo

>> No.17311186

>>17309743
Underrated

>> No.17311577

>>17311186
Go back