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-How does society relate to privilege, or the rejection thereof?
-What can be said of the guilt of the spectator?
-What are the implications of the denial of the spectator?
-Summation of the spectacle as anything attempting to attribute universal value.
-Capital::Commodity/Spectacle::image
Spectacle Nuance as Defined by Debord:
Concentrated Spectacle
-associated with concentrated bureaucracy (eastern bloc, fascism)
-property, communication, music, everything is concentrated/identified with bureaucratic class
-identifies with a powerful political leader
-made effective through state of permanent violence and terror
Diffuse Spectacle
-associated with advanced capitalism and commodity abundance
-commodities compete with each other, preventing whole consumption
-more effective than concentrated at suppression of non-spectacular opinions
-operates through seduction
Integrated Spectacle
-associated with modern capitalist countries
-borrows from diffuse and concentrated to form synthesis
-goes by the label 'liberal democracy'
-depends on permanent and general secrecy (the job of experts and specialists to define and translate statistics, morality)
-terrorism is the invented enemy of the spectacle, as it needs a comparison to be superior to in order to survive
Some outside things that got mentioned...
Joseph_Beuys
Walter_Benjamin
CWC- Fighting in the New Terrain
Barthes- Mythology
What are some of instances, even if fleeting, where you have seen a crack in the spectacle?
What was the most spectacular thing you experienced this week?
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