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“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.” quote by Guy Debord — Download Open image

“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”

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Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

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All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.

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“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.”

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“But a lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane.”

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Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It…

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The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates,…

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“In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni”

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What appears is good; what is good appears.

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

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