History Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely…

— Guy Debord

“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

“I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations of wonder I experienced. I seemed, as I…

— Jules Verne

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

— Paul Ricoeur

“The vision should be through our creative eyes, but along with the spectacles of reality.”

— Rajasaraswathii

“our visuallydominated world sight is almost synonymous with understanding. We acknowledge light dawning by saying: ‘I see!’ The metaphor of vision suffuses our attempts…

— Richard Fortey

“Vision involves more than just seeing or being shown.”

— Donis A. Dondis

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before…

— Gaston Bachelard

“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

“It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic view and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.”

— Marilyn Frye

In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived…

— Guy Debord

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