The Society of the Spectacle
“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
Society of the Spectacle
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
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The social group is broken down into atomized individuals who fight for their right to fulfillment via professional advancement or personal consumption. This system is often sold to us as freedom. Those competing individuals never find true autonomy, however, because they lack the social fabric in which to exercise it.
Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human
Debord calls stars “spectacular representations of living human beings,” avatars who “embody the inaccessible results of social labor by dramatizing the by-products of that labor which are magically projected above it as its ultimate goals: power and vacations.”
Claire Dederer • Monsters
“Products” are hardly just devices or physical apparatuses, but various services and interconnections that quickly become the dominant or exclusive ontological templates of one’s social reality.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
