How long does it take to read The Society of the Spectacle?
Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord takes about 2 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 53 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1967. 157 pages, about 43,175 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 52 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and everyday life in the late twentieth cenlury. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord's text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image/information culture.
Subjects: Social psychology, Classes socials, Proletariat, Social sciences, Sociology, Architecture & Urbanism
