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Guy Debord critiques the pervasive influence of the spectacle in modern society, exploring its impact on reality, historical knowledge, and individual perception, while arguing against its integrated control over culture and politics.
monoskop.orgIn societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Society of the Spectacle
“The society which rests on modern industry is not accidentally or superficially spectacular, it is fundamentally spectaclist. In the spectacle, which is the image of the ruling economy, the goal is nothing, development everything. The spectacle aims at nothing other than itself.”
Society of the Spectacle
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Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
Society of the Spectacle
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
He is concerned with the liberation of man from a kind of work which destroys his individuality, which transforms him into a thing, and which makes him into the slave of things. Just as Kierkegaard was concerned with the salvation of the individual, so Marx was, and his criticism of capitalist society is directed not at its method of distribution... See more