Book Review: The Spectacle 2.0: Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism, edited by Marco Briziarelli and Emiliana Armano

  • Lindsay Weinberg University of California Santa Cruz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i1.1015
Keywords: Digital capitalism, spectacle, Guy Debord, digital labour, commodification

Abstract

Lindsay Weinberg reviews Marco Briziarelli and Emiliana Armano (eds.) 2017. The Spectacle 2.0: Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism. London: University of Westminster Press.

Author Biography

Lindsay Weinberg, University of California Santa Cruz

Lindsay Weinberg is a PhD Candidate in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of personalisation, meaning the web of technologies and cultural practices that generate information about consumers to market goods and services to target audiences. Her research interests include the history of leisure-time surveillance, discourses concerning possessive individualism and privacy, and content moderation online. Her work has appeared in Lateral and Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture. She is also the contributing editor of Studies In Control Societies.

Published
2018-03-12
Issue
Vol 16 No 1 (2018)
Section
Reflections (Non Peer-Reviewed)

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