Society of the Spectacle
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Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
“The real consumer has become a consumer of illusions” (p.18)
“Fabrication of pseudo-needs” with the “reign of the autonomous economy” (p.19)
“Whatever is conscious wears out. What is unconscious remains unalterable” (p.19)
“The society of the spectacle, where the commodity contemplates itself in a world of its
Here are the first two sentences of Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle: “In post-industrial societies where mass production and media predominate, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly experienced has been replaced with its representation in the form of images.” He wrote that in 1967! Imagine... See more
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“The society which rests on modern industry is not accidentally or superficially spectacular, it is fundamentally spectaclist. In the spectacle, which is the image of the ruling economy, the goal is nothing, development everything. The spectacle aims at nothing other than itself.”
Society of the Spectacle
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... See moreThe spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.