“As long as necessity is socially dreamed, dreaming will remain a social necessity. The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterised by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal,… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.” — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates,… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
