This week I have read Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, as well as Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life. I read the first chapter of each of these pieces. A lot of the ideas and comments about the nature of reality made in Guy Debord’s piece remind me a lot of science fiction author Douglas Adams writings, specifically his two books about Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. There is one line specifically in Debord’s piece about how the spectacle “interrelates and explains a wide range of seemingly unconnected phenomena” that is very much in line with Adam’s “holistic interconnectedness of everything.” Even Adam’s method of solving cases is very similar to Debord’s practice of Dérive. There are other lines that are
