Guy Debord: Society of the Spectacle in the Digital Age

Guy Debord was a Marxist filmmaker and founder of the Situationist International, a group of radical artists and thinkers who believed that modern life had been hijacked by appearances. Debord saw not just the rise of media, but the rise of mediation - and it terrified him. He died in 1994, just before the Internet fully absorbed us, so we brought him back to view an era where the spectacle is not a theory, but an operating system. He took one look at TikTok influencers livestreaming staged protests and muttered: "It's worse than I imagined."