about the quoted person:French essayist and filmmaker who helped found the Internationale Situationniste (Situationist International), an anti-art movement.his critique of the alienation and commodification of consumer capitalism, Society of the Spectacle (1967), became the main text of the worldwide student-led cultural revolts in May 1968. also today the book remains a locus classicus for cultural studies academics, anarchists, punks, direct-action activists, and more than a few late-century dilettantes-arguing that media and technology ("the spectacle") have reduced people to mere voyeurs of their own lives, with all desires and relationships sold back as leisure products.in 1994 he committed suicide.you can read the society of the spectacle online: click here.