#Society of the spectacle update

#Society of the spectacle update

In this article, we will accordingly update Debord's ideas in forumulating Situationist ideas are thus an important part of contemporary cultural theory and activism, and may continue to inspire cultural and political opposition as the 'Society of the Spectacle' entersĬyberspace and new realms of culture and experience. Many of these 'zines pay homage to Debord and the Situationists, as do a profusion of Web sites that contain their texts and diverse commentary.

The past decade has been marked by a profusion of cultural activism which uses inexpensive new communications technology to proliferate radical social critique and cultural activism. Moreover, Situationist texts are experiencing an interesting afterlife in the proliferation of 'zines and Web sites, some of which embody Situationist practice. The concept of 'spectacle' has almost become normalized, emerging as part and parcel of both theoretical and popular media discourse. With the sort of spectacle that he described in his classical works, and Economics, politics, and everyday life is still permeated The afterlife of the ideas of Guy Debord and the Situationist International 'There is no doubt for aynone who examines the question coldly that those who really want to shake an established society must formulate a theory which fundamentally explains this society, or which at least quite seems to give a satisfactory explantion,' Guy Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness,' Ludwig 'But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence.

Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the Spectacle by Douglas Kellnerĭebord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the Spectacle