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The Society of the Spectacle is a dense, polemical, and poetic work of philosophy first published in 1967 by Marxist theorist, Guy Debord.
In advanced capitalist countries, mass produced commodities are marketed for their singularity, as if individuality could be achieved by millions of people buying the same product.
In both instances, the spectacle inverts reality in order to pacify potential opposition. It is an inverted image of the real that nonetheless has real effects.
Debord gives us a radical critique of late capitalism; A system in which all of us are coerced into being mere spectators of the system, rather than active participants in it.
Images flicker before us on the TV, just as reality passes us by, and most of us feel alienated from it and we certainly don't do much to change it.
And because most of us are passive spectators, we unwittingly reproduce the system and the dominant subjectivity which sustains it. Everyday life becomes a factory of seriality.


Nice little summary from Ed Strong's blog...the daily spectacle...sorta makes you wonder if Lemon Yellow leather will be offered in N/A.:biggrin:
http://edstrong.blog-city.com/ the_d...pectacle__f...