Kaitlyn Arroyo
Self Image: I
Professor Cacoilo
April 20th, 2022
Mass media takes over our lives. Our phones advertise popular franchises of food chains and commercial vehicle products though our daily conversations and search tabs. The spectacle that was mentioned in the excerpt: "The Society of the Spectacle" derives amongst the fact that this spectacle describes emotions and what is being shown to us in our daily lives are giving us subliminal messages to seek these products and eventually take part in this media-influenced world. The spectacle is the social relation between people by these images. It is becoming unclear to us now what is reality or what is part of the virtual-reality.
Guy Debord
Excerpt from: Society of the Spectacle
Chapter 1 Quote
"Separation is itself part of the unity of the world, of the global social praxis which is split into reality and image." (Debord 7)
Separation is part of the spectacle. It wants nothing by itself, and being separated from this mass media of the spectacle grants it the power to make its own rules in society.
"In the spectacle, image of the ruling economy, the goal is nothing, development is all."
The spectacle that Debord mentions is how money takes over society's roots and flourishes the marketplace. We all revolve around one thing that keep the economy growing and demand a higher value for products and income that is made. Adversaries keep growing and so does society as a whole.
Hyperallergic
Excerpt from: An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle"
"There remains nothing, in culture or nature, which has not been transformed, and polluted according to the means and interests of modern industry." (Tiernan 7)
"The spectacle is the other side of money: it is the general abstract equivalent of all commodities." (Tiernan 10)
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