Debord, the Yes Men, & the Society of the Spectacle Frenchman Guy Debord composed his opus The Society of the Spectacle nearly five decades ago, and the Yes Men produced their culture jamming epic, The Yes Men Fix the World approximately four decades after the publication of Debord's work. Though they are years and miles a part, there are distinctive connections between these two texts that the paper will examine and report upon concisely. The Yes Men are a somewhat famous, possibly more infamous though, duo that makes films and engages in social experiments, pubic art, and other activities that are closely linked to artistic and activist movements such as the Situationalists and the Dadaists. In their film, they play both themselves and their corporate alter egos as an interactive mockumentary protest against some the greatest crimes against humanity and the Earth in the name of material accumulation and subordination of the masses. The Society of the Spectacle is dense with descriptions of the nature of consumer culture and the fundamental pillars of infrastructure...
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