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December 29, 2007

the society of the spectacle

Filed under: guy debord, society of the spectacle — ABRAXAS @ 10:11 am

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The spectacle inherits all the weaknesses of the Western philosophical project which undertook to comprehend activity in terms of the categories of seeing; furthermore, it is based on the incessant spread of the precise technical rationality which grew out of this thought. The spectacle does not realize philosophy, it philosophizes reality. The concrete life of everyone has been degraded into a speculative universe.

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