Cover of the journal Atomes, October 1956 Guy Debord mentions automation only once in The Society of the Spectacle , in a short thesis tucked into the book’s second section, “The Commodity as Spectacle.” And yet it is hard not to think that the claim he makes in this compact passage is a crucial one, underpinning the construction of the book’s celebrated central concept. “With automation,” he writes, “the world of the commodity must come to terms with the following contradiction: the technical infrastructure which objectively suppresses labor must at the same time preserve labor as a commodity, and […]
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