The Society of the Spectacle Quotes by Guy Debord
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The Society of the Spectacle Quotes by Guy Debord
the objects which promise unique powers can be recommended to the devotion of the masses only if they’re produced in quantities large enough for mass consumption. A product acquires prestige when it is placed at the center of social life as the revealed mystery of the ultimate goal of production. But the object which was prestigious in the spectacl... See more
Society of the Spectacle
When art, which was the common language of social inaction, becomes independent art in the modern sense, emerging from its original religious universe and becoming individual production of separate works, it too experiences the movement that dominates the history of the entirety of separate culture. The affirmation of its independence is the beginn... See more
Society of the Spectacle
“there is no considering the labor stored in things without thinking about the social relations that brought about their production”
SOME EXERCISES IN SLOW PERCEPTION
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SOME EXERCISES IN SLOW PERCEPTION
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Pseudocyclical time is a time that has been transformed by industry. The time based on commodity production is itself a consumable commodity, one that recombines everything that the disintegration of the old unitary societies had differentiated into private life, economic life, political life. The entire consumable time of modern society ends up be
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“spectacular domination has succeeded in raising an entire generation molded to its laws.”