We touched briefly on an important predecessor of Baudrillard - Guy DeBord - in this week's lecture.
As with a number of the theorists we've considered so far, DeBord has a talent for snappy phrases that take on a life of their own, and are often misconstrued. Like 'The Death of the Author,' or 'The Desert of the Real,' 'The Society of the Spectacle' is often deployed without proper respect to the theorist's whole argument.
If you want to know more about the intriguing notion of social life 'as an immense accumulation of spectacles,' there's a full translation here.
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