[Air-L] Open access book: The Spectacle 2.0: Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism

[Traci Belanger]

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On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:55:04 +0000, Christian Fuchs  wrote:
 
New open access book
The Spectacle 2.0: Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism,
edited by Marco Briziarelli and Emiliana Armano,
University of Westminster Press
"Critical Digital & Social Media Studies" book series (ed. C. Fuchs),
Volume 5

Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord's theory of spectacle within the frame of
21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord’s
original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, of its posterior
revisitation in the 1990s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the
concept within the scenario of contemporary informational capitalism and
more specifically of digital and media labour. It is argued that the
Spectacle 2.0 form operates as the interactive network that links
through one singular (but contradictory) language and various
imaginaries, uniting diverse productive contexts such as logistics,
finance, new media and urbanism. Spectacle 2.0 thus colonizes most
spheres of social life by processes of commodification, exploitation and
reification. Diverse contributors consider the topic within the book’s
two main sections: Part I conceptualizes and historicizes the Spectacle
in the context of informational capitalism; contributions in Part II
offer empirical cases that historicise the Spectacle in relation to the
present (and recent past) showing how a Spectacle 2.0 approach can
illuminate and deconstruct specific aspects of contemporary social
reality. All contributions included in this book rework the category of
the Spectacle to present a stimulating compendium of theoretical
critical literature in the fields of media and labour studies. In the
era of the gig-economy, highly mediated content and President Trump,
Debord’s concept is arguably more relevant than ever.

https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book11/

https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/critical-digital-and-social-media-studies/

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