The Society Of The Spectacle: A Dialectic Of Fear
- September 2, 2010, 8:20 am
Our recognition that the reproduction of advanced and advancing late capitalist societies often translates into the depletion of the earths human and biological-ecological resources should be an encouragement to develop Guy Debords critique of postmodern society in directions that allow us to conceptualize how its wasteful modes of reproduction transform both immanent and practical life into a nihilistic project while providing possibilities for the creation of concrete situations enabling us to overturn its destructive accumulative schemes. Debord has of course characterized ours as a society of the spectacle,# a social formation in which, through the circulation of symbols, the capitalist mode of production coordinates all areas of social life. Specifically, modern societies that have
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