Monday 19 September 2011

Guy Debord: The Society Of The Spectacle (1967)


Debord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic social life has been replaced with its representation: "All that was once directly lived has become mere representation." Debord argues that the history of social life can be understood as "the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing." This condition, according to Debord, is the "historical moment at which the commodity completes its colonization of social life."


“The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.”

“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.”



1 comment:

theblimp said...

Pass: http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/