A short book written by
Guy Debord which explains the concepts of the Spectacular Society in full. This is one of the most scathing and brilliant critiques of modern times ever written. It was first published (as
La société du spectacle) in 1967 by Editions Buchet-Chastel (Paris). The first English translation was published by Black & Red (Detroit) in 1970.
Fearles noder mutant has been so kind as to begin noding the book in its entirety, starting with Society of the Spectacle:1. However he seems to have stalled about 1/4 of the way through its 221 items. In lieu of the completion of this herculean task, the text can be found online at the wonderful Nothingness site here:
http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/pub_contents/4
Debord later wrote a second book called Commments on the Society of the Spectacle, in which he evaluated some of the observations made in the first book and how they have played out over the years.