Society of the Spectacle

I love this one. The French could replace their nuclear powerplants with Guy Debord, who must currently be breaking the sound barrier spinning in his grave. I can't deny that this books is almost gibberish at times and I won't pretend to understand all of it but what I do get is precious.

This is a very depressing note on how capitalism also enslaves us into mere consumers to fill our day with shallow meansings, alongside with how modernity has failed us, as famously inspiring the works of The 1975.

Is this a tough read? For me not, mostly because i think about these things in the same dimension as the writer did, and he surely carried it with a great deal lot of depth than me, which is precise and thought-provoking enough to say that this is the new bible.

The mere problem would be that it acts as more of a criticism work instead of providing some feasible actions to remedy the grave reality of modern world, which only intensifies as time moves on to the 21st century. Despite this, i just think that it is justified for how good it is.

এই বই নিয়ে বেশি কথা বলার ইলম্ আমার নাই। আশার বিষয় হচ্ছে অন্ততঃ ‘স্পেকট্যাকল' বিষয়ক পাঠে এই বইটা হতে পারে শিক্ষার শুরু।

একটা খুব মজার বিষয় হচ্ছে, যদিও যখন তিনি লিখেছেন, সেই ক্যাপিটালিস্ট সোসাইটিকেই তিনি বিশ্লেষণ করেছেন কিন্তু পড়লে হবে তিনি আসলে ভবিষ্যৎবাণী করছেন। প্রচুর ডিজিটাল প্রডাক্ট ও এনএফটির যুগের মানুষদের আসলে স্পেকট্যাকল জিনিসটা বোঝা সহজ। বলা যায় আমাদের জীবন থেকে নেওয়া।

So uhhhhhh my copy got stolen before I finished but I read enough to get a gist.

A mindblowing and poetic critique of modern alienation and mediation interwoven with history lessons (capped with a history of history), attacks on various Marxist and anarchist factions, and sections of such obtuseness I'm still not sure if the fault was mine or the book's. Still, more genius per page than the leading brand and it looks good in a cafe.