The Society of the Spectacle Quotes by Guy Debord
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The Society of the Spectacle Quotes by Guy Debord
Stare long enough, and you begin to see the whole: an economy where culture is made in service of brands . To be even more literal: cultural production has become a service industry for the supply chain.
Toby • Life After Lifestyle
Publicity is about social relations, not objects. Its promise is not of pleasure, but of happiness: happiness as judged from the outside by others. The happiness of being envied is glamour.
John Berger • Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics)
Baudrillard saw commodities as similar to words. Something is always signified by consumption; consumption signifies something socially.
Matthew Wizinsky • Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
The spectacle is the stage at which the commodity has succeeded in totally colonizing social life.
Guy Debord • The Society of the Spectacle
“Static societies” are societies that have reduced their historical movement to a minimum, that have managed to maintain their internal conflicts and their conflicts with the natural and human environment in a constant equilibrium. Although the extraordinary diversity of the institutions established for this purpose bears eloquent testimony to the
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