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“The spectacle erases the dividing line between self and world, in that the self- under siege by the presence/absence of the world, is eventually…

— Guy Debord

“The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and…

— Josef Pieper

“Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey…

— Edith Wharton

“The reduction of experience to 'a series of pure and unrelated presents' further implies that the 'experience of the present becomes powerfully, overwhelmingly vivid…

— David Harvey

“Virtuality is different from the spectacle, which still left room for a critical consciousness and demystification. The abstraction of the 'spectacle' was never irrevocable,…

— Jean Baudrillard

“The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow creature,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty…

— Plato

“But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my individual history,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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

“And the voice spoke even more deliberately: '...but remember what is under the ocean of clouds: eternity.' And suddenly that tranquil world, the world…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles forming in…

— Eudora Welty

“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic…

— Claude Calame