The appropriation about Guy Debord in Douglas Kellner: the theory of spectacle applied to the media studies

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2316882X43418

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Douglas Kellner, Guy Debord. Jean Baudrillard, Media culture, Society of the spectacle

Abstract

Douglas Kellner is a famous scholar of the phenomena of “media culture”. His work is enriched by the ideas of French postmodern thinkers, such as Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. Through bibliographic research, we expose the Kellnerian theoretical proposal and analyze its conceptual transformations over time. We show how the author worked with concepts of “media culture” in the 1990s and then went on to talk about “media spectacle”. What is at stake in this conceptual change? We analyze how the American scholar appropriated and updated Guy Debord’s thinking, as well as involved Jean Baudrillard in this discussion, even if in the background. We conclude that Debord understood the spectacle as a social relationship, not as media content. Kellner does not always make this distinction: he treats the spectacle as a cultural category to apply to media analysis.

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Otávio Daros, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS

Doutorando em Comunicação Social pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, onde concluiu o mestrado e a graduação em jornalismo. Fellow do Laboratório de História da Comunicação na Universidade de Bremen.

The appropriation about Guy Debord in Douglas Kellner: the theory of spectacle applied to the media studies

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Published

2021-01-04

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Daros, O. (2021). The appropriation about Guy Debord in Douglas Kellner: the theory of spectacle applied to the media studies. Cadernos De Comunicação, 24(3). https://doi.org/10.5902/2316882X43418

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Vol. 24 No. 3 (2020)

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