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

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“The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than “that which appears is good, that which is good appears. The attitude which it demands in principle is passive acceptance which in fact it already obtained by its manner of appearing without reply, by its monopoly of

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