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Spectacle Quotes by Guy Debord
- The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
- 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…
- In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has…
- The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
- 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 from…
- He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
- None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle
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