The Society of the Spectacle and the Society of Control

In the work The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord writes an essay-manifest critic - of a philosophical and literary nature - in which he directs his criticism, above all, at the way in which contemporary social life is gradually transformed into a mediated experience by the spectacle, in which it pretends to represent life and its social relations, starting, above all, the apparatus of images. From the constitution of the spectacle society, for Debord - as a global domain over the totality of society - we aim to understand the development of this concept and two possible relationships with the concepts of Control Society (Foucault/Deleuze/Guattari) and, finally, from Empire (Hardt/Negri).