IN OUR SOCIETY, the increased production of goods—privately produced goods—is, as we have seen, a basic measure of social achievement. This is partly the result of the great continuity of ideas which links the present with a world in which production indeed meant life. Partly, it is a matter of vested interest. Partly, it is a product of the elabor

The Situationist writer, Guy Debord, whose book, The Society of the Spectacle, became the bible of the ‘événements’ in France in 1968, denounced the commoditisation of leisure and accused capitalism of colonising all aspects of life. To view the spectacle –in this case

le pouvoir sans entraves que le capital a pris sur le travail, sur la société et sur la vie de tous tient précisément à ceci : que le « travail » – celui qu’on vous fait faire, non celui que vous faites – conserve dans la vie et dans la conscience de chacun sa centralité alors même qu’il est massivement éliminé, économisé et aboli à tous les niveau