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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.
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The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
youtube.comHere are the first two sentences of Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle: “In post-industrial societies where mass production and media predominate, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly experienced has been replaced with its representation in the form of images.” He wrote that in 1967! Imagine wh... See more
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The Situationist writer, Guy Debord, whose book, The Society of the Spectacle, became the bible of the ‘événements’ in France in 1968, denounced the commoditisation of leisure and accused capitalism of colonising all aspects of life. To view the spectacle –in this case
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The Post-Individual
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