Guy Debord, a Critique of Modernism and Fordism: What Lessons for Today?

Abstract

The advent of the Age of the Internet seems to have vindicated Debord’s approach to the life vs the spectacle issue. The multiplication of screens even suggests a mise en abyme of the concept as we spend an increasing part of our lives watching merchandise such as smartphones that showcase the world as merchandise, from news to pornography and all sorts of consumer goods and services, and the omnipresent reality of the virtual expresses itself as in ‘second life’ or ‘virtual reality’ devices, and Pokemon Go. While, as Christian Fuchs (2015) has shown, the Internet has brought commodity fetishism to