![]() ![]() In his analysis of the spectacular society, Debord notes that quality of life is impoverished, with such lack of authenticity, human perceptions are affected, and there's also a degradation of knowledge, with the hindering of critical thought. "The spectacle is not a collection of images," Debord writes, "rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images." ![]() The spectacle is the inverted image of society in which relations between commodities have supplanted relations between people, in which "passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity". ![]() Degradation of human lifeÄebord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic social life has been replaced with its representation: "All that once was 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." They contain approximately a paragraph each. ![]() The work is a series of 221 short theses. ![]()
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