As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live. — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“Stars — spectacular representations of living human beings — project this general banality into images of permitted roles. As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented… — 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
