Society of the Spectacle
Clutter images Rob Horning 9.16.2022
1. In consumer society we feel useful when we participate in the circulation of goods.
2. Hoarding is a way to adapt to the quantified life; a way of upping your score.
3. Collecting dots creates a hoard where you cede intention to chance encounters with miscellaneous stuff.
4. In the digital realm as objects, image... See more
1. In consumer society we feel useful when we participate in the circulation of goods.
2. Hoarding is a way to adapt to the quantified life; a way of upping your score.
3. Collecting dots creates a hoard where you cede intention to chance encounters with miscellaneous stuff.
4. In the digital realm as objects, image... See more
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The 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.
The Society of the Spectacle Quotes by Guy Debord
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 wh... See more