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Yeah, the 'spectacle' is definitely a reference to Guy Debord. 'Empire' I take as just referring to western political and cultural imperialism. Bloom is a reference to the character in Ulysses but I've not read the 'Bloom' piece so don't know why or how.
I don't know what you'll make of Society of the Spectacle. It's not an easy read. More like a (long) manifesto made up of fragments. It lends itself to dipping into, rather than being read in the conventional cover-to-cover way. If you haven't already read Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, I'd say that'd provide a far more readable (and definitely more substantial, on an intellectual level) backdrop to a lot of the ideas underpinning Young-Girl.
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