5/23/2023 0 Comments Society of the spectacle![]() ![]() The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as society itself, as a part of society, and as a means of unification. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving. ![]() The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. ![]() ![]() The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation. In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Feuerbach, Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness. truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Ideology Materialized The Culmination of Separationīut for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence. The Proletariat as Subject and Representation ![]()
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