Megawra Book Club: Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle

MEGAWRA BOOK CLUB resumes its activities. This time we will be reading Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, a short but extremely thought provoking read that was written in 1967 and becomes more and more relevant with time.

Close to 40 years later, it relates to phenomena that are becoming a sign of our times such as the ‘Spectacle Architecture’ of Bilbao or of Dubai, and also to ‘Spectacle Politics’ in which the representation of change (in the many types of media we communicate through today) is arguably as important as real change.

The book is in English, but discussions will be in a mix of Arabic and English.

The book club is open to all and will be moderated by Ahmed Borham, an independent scholar and practitioner who also teaches at AUC and the Arab Academy. Check out his blog at http://drawingparallels.blogspot.com/

Meetings will take place weekly. In the preliminary meeting on Tuesday the 2nd of October, those interested in joining will decide on the weekly meeting day.

For more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle

For the book pdf:

http://www.antiworld.se/project/references/texts/The_Society%20_Of%20_The%20_Spectacle.pdf