《媒体奇观:当代美国社会文化透视》通过分析企业、个人和政府以大众传媒为渠道制造的一个个耸人听闻的事件，向读者揭示了当代美国社会所蕴含的矛盾与危机。作者将被媒体放大的事件称为“奇观”，并在此基础上提出“媒体奇观”理论，具体从商业、体育、犯罪、影视和政治媒介报道的五大主题选取案例，透彻分析沉淀于媒体信息表层之下的文化内涵，并对人类在新千年的前途提出自己的忧思和警示。

For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture. At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s. Today, Debord's work continues to be in the forefront of debates about the fate of consumer society and the operation of modern social power. In a sweeping revision of Marxist categories, the notion of the spectacle takes the problem of the commodity from the sphere of economics to a point at which the commodity as an image dominates not only economic exchange but the primary communicative and symbolic activity of all modern societies.Guy Debord was one of the most important participants in the activities associated with the Situationist International in the 1960s. Also an artist and filmmaker, he is the author of Memoires and Commentaires sur la societe du spectacle. A Swerve Edition, distributed for Zone Books.