The Society of the Spectacle

by Guy Debord

A new English edition of Guy Debord's 1967 book, La Société du Spectacle.

📕 Book

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This repo is the text of the book, source references, and a collection of tools to produce the book in multiple formats for distribution.

Requirements

• NodeJS, npm
• Pandoc / Prince XML

on macOS:

# install Pandoc and libs
brew install pandoc librsvg
# install fonts
brew install --cask font-source-serif-pro kindle-previewer
# install Prince XML
# brew install --cask --no-quarantine prince
# install dependencies
npm install

Development

npm run lint    # show lint errors
npm run format  # format markdown

To live preview markdown in a browser:

npm run pen <filename>

Generating Books

npm run build  # build all formats to docs/*.{html,pdf,epub}