https://slackersmuse.com/tags/anthropology/ Recent content in anthropology on Slacker's Muse Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_thesocietyofthespectacle/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_thesocietyofthespectacle/ A Review: The Society of the Spectacle Title of Work: The Society of the Spectacle Author: Guy Debord Format: Published: 1967 Started: 2026-04-01 Finished: 2026-06-02\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Book club w/ David, took us a really long time for such a skinny book. Plenty packed in to 221 atomic, information dense theses but it’s also written in a deliberately inverting, subversive… inversive? style. Hegel/Marx dialectic tradition. Negation and some syntax thing called the reverse genitive, perhaps meant to mirror the upside-downing of values in capitalist systems.