Society Of The Spectacle And Other Films. Introduction; Buy This Book; Read Online; Export Data; Book Review; Search more; Authors: Guy Debord Publisher: Rebel Pr Keywords: films, spectacle. Title: Stuart Hall The Spectacle Of The Other Keywords: Stuart Hall The Spectacle Of The Other Created Date: 9/5/2014 4:09:38 PM. The Society of the Spectacle (1) (Debord)B U R E A U O F P U B L I C S E C R E T S“But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth. Feuerbach, Preface to the Second Edition. The Essence. of Christianity 1. In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, life is presented. Everything that was directly. The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in.
Posted on 24-Sep-2014 . BOUQUET GRAND SPECTACLE y compris toutes les cha Fragmented views of. The specialization of images of the world has. The. spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the. The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as society itself, as a part of society. As a part of society, it is ostensibly the focal. But due to the very fact that this sector is. The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between. The spectacle cannot be understood as a mere visual excess produced by. It is a worldview that has actually been materialized. Understood in its totality, the spectacle is both the result and the project of. It is not a mere supplement or decoration added to the real. In all. particular manifestations — news, propaganda, advertising, entertainment — the. It is the omnipresent. In both form and. The spectacle is also the constant. Separation is itself an integral part of the unity of this world, of a global. The social practice confronted by. But the split within this totality mutilates it to the. The language of the spectacle. The spectacle cannot be abstractly contrasted to concrete social activity. Each side of such a duality is itself divided. The spectacle that falsifies. Objective reality is present on both sides. Each. of these seemingly fixed concepts has no other basis than its. This reciprocal alienation is the essence and support of the. In a world that has really been turned upside down, the true is a. The concept of “the spectacle” interrelates and explains a wide range of. The apparent diversities and contrasts of these. Considered in its own terms, the spectacle is. But a critique that grasps the spectacle’s. In order to describe the spectacle, its formation, its functions, and the. In analyzing the spectacle we are obliged to a certain. For the spectacle is both the meaning and the agenda of. It is the historical moment in which we. The spectacle presents itself as a vast inaccessible reality that can. Its sole message is: “What appears is good; what is good. The passive acceptance it demands is already. The tautological character of the spectacle stems from the fact that its. It is the sun that never sets over the empire of. It covers the entire surface of the globe, endlessly basking. The society based on modern industry is not accidentally or superficially. In the spectacle — the. The spectacle aims at nothing other than itself. As indispensable embellishment of currently produced objects, as general. The spectacle is able to subject human beings to itself because the. It is nothing other than. It is at once a faithful reflection of. The first stage of the economy’s domination of social life brought about an. The present. stage, in which social life has become completely occupied by the accumulated. At the same time all individual reality. Individual reality is allowed to appear only insofar. When the real world is transformed into mere images, mere images become real. Since the spectacle’s job is to use various specialized mediations in. But the. spectacle is not merely a matter of images, nor even of images plus sounds. It. is whatever escapes people’s activity, whatever eludes their practical. It is the opposite of dialogue. Wherever. representation becomes independent, the spectacle regenerates itself. The spectacle inherits the weakness of the Western philosophical. The spectacle does. Philosophy — the power of separate thought and the thought of separate power. The spectacle is the material. Spectacular technology has not. The illusory paradise representing a total denial of earthly. The spectacle is the technological version of the exiling of human. As long as necessity is socially dreamed, dreaming will remain. The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and. The spectacle is the. The fact that the practical power of modern society has detached itself from. The root of the spectacle is that oldest of all social specializations, the. The spectacle plays the specialized role of. It is hierarchical society’s. The most modern aspect of the spectacle is thus also. The spectacle is the ruling order’s nonstop discourse about itself, its. The fetishistic appearance of. Nature, with its own. But the spectacle is not. If the spectacle, considered in the limited sense of the. If the social. needs of the age in which such technologies are developed can be met only. The social separation reflected in the. Separation is the alpha and omega of the spectacle. The. institutionalization of the social division of labor in the form of class. Religion. justified the cosmic and ontological order that corresponded to the interests of. In this sense, all separate power has been spectacular. But this. earlier universal devotion to a fixed religious imagery was only a shared. In. contrast, the modern spectacle depicts what society could deliver, but in. Like a factitious god, it. It reveals itself for what it is: an. In the course of this development, all community and all. The general separation of worker and product tends to eliminate any. With the increasing accumulation of separate products and the. The triumph of this. Due to the very success of this separate production of separation, the. But such inactivity is in no way liberated. It remains dependent on it, in an uneasy and admiring. It is. itself one of the products of that system. There can be no freedom apart. Thus, what is referred to as a “liberation from work,” namely the. None of the activity. The reigning economic system is a vicious circle of isolation. Its. technologies are based on isolation, and they contribute to that same isolation. In the spectacle, a part of the. The spectacle. is simply the common language of this separation. Spectators are linked solely by their. The spectacle thus reunites the separated, but it reunites them only. The alienation of the spectator, which reinforces the contemplated objects. The. spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that. The spectator does. Workers do not produce themselves, they produce a power independent of. The success of this production, the abundance it generates. As. their alienated products accumulate, all time and space become foreign to. The spectacle is the map of this new world, a map that is identical to the. The forces that have escaped us. The spectacle’s social function is the concrete manufacture of alienation. The “growth” generated by an economy developing for. Though separated from what they produce, people nevertheless produce. They thus also find. The closer their life comes. The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point that it becomes. Chapter 1 of Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle. Paris, 1. 96. 7). Newly translated and annotated by Ken Knabb. This translation is not copyrighted.
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