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The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.”
“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.”
“Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.”
“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
“The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.”
“Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity”
“The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.”
“The reigning economic system is a vicious circle of isolation. Its technologies are based on isolation, and they contribute to that same isolation. From automobiles to television, the goods that the spectacular system chooses to produce also serve it as weapons for constantly reinforcing the conditions that engender “lonely crowds.”
“This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.”
“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.”
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adventure, spectacle, technology, consumer-society, reification, life, children, capitalism-and-death, critical, philosophy, capitalism, alienation