What is the spectacle Veeky Forums?

I'm down for neo-situationalism

"Ace in the Hole" is a pretty good spectacular representation of the spectacle. Every one of us is Leo Minosa: getting word about our life second hand from a reporter, slowly suffocating alone in a dirty pit. Unless you're lucky enough to have found personal intercourse outside of prison society, anyway

the circumstances that led to its creation no longer exist, and can't appear again. "after such knowledge, what forgiveness?"

if you want to march around stencil-spraypainting THERE'S NOTHING THEY WON'T DO TO INCREASE THE PRICE OF BOREDOM, then go right ahead. it'll be kind of nostalgic, like wearing a Che beret or getting a mohawk.

>Debord and Baudrillard were doing sociological studies of the new consumer society and everyday life in France simultaneously in the 1960s; both worked with Henri Lefebvre and were part of a similar political and intellectual milieu at the time. Just as Baudrillard was aware of the work of the Situationists, there is evidence they were aware of his, since in one text they denounced him as a "decrepit modernist-institutionalist" (in Knabb 1981: 211).
>But it seems the Situationists were more an influence on Baudrillard than vice versa. For Baudrillard, the Situationists were "without doubt the only ones to attempt to extract this new radicality of political economy in their 'society of the spectacle'" (1975: 120). At one time, in fact, Baudrillard considered himself a Situationist: "Pataphysician at twenty -- Situationist at thirty -- utopian at forty -- transversal at fifty -- viral and metaleptic at sixty -- that's my history" (1990: 131). Yet he soon rejected the Situationist analysis as itself bound to an obsolete modernist framework based on notions like history, reality, and interpretation, and he jumped into a postmodern orbit that declared the death of all modern values and referents under conditions of simulation, implosion, and hyperreality.

lol

Capital

is society of the spectacle still revelant?

imagine being denounced by your biggest influence holy shit it would destroy me

THE SPECTACLE IS THE MASS MEDIA!

Everything

Debord killed himself, anyway. He was destroyed by how accurate his most cynical predictions were

the book is like ten pages just read it you cunt

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More than ever, dude, more than ever. Read the bits about commodifying relationships and then think about Tinder and shit.

Debord is more accurate now than when he wrote the damn book. He managed to capture the nature, uses and effects of the internet fifty years before it hit mainstream, that's pretty powerful.

So basically /pol/?

/pol/ are just a flip of the switch away from going full insurrectionist neo situ, they have nothing to lose, which is not something you can say about the institutional left.
Debord was still a man of the literate age, who deliberately wrote in a style that represented an 'ironic' detournement of classical french prose. We are deep into the 'eternal present' Debord talked about in the Commentaries to the SoS (1988). The modern spectacle, powered by digital media is far more invasive than in Debord's time, or even in that remote early 21st century world you might remember from your childhood. The californization of the world has kicked into hyperdrive. We are forced to endure the largest encounter group session the world has ever known.
bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/843165bf-1e69-3dec-873e-973fc8e604a5

Surveillance technologies have developed beyond the wildest dreams of 20th century totalitarianisms. Everyone can eavesdrop on everybody else. enter the personalised feedback loop. Note how middlebrow prestige outlets have completely given over to the worship of the politicised commodity. A few dozen or so MegaBrands tower over the human imagination.

the last years of capitalist development have created a landscape of unsurpassed sterility, a homogenous wasteland haunted by atomised 'former people', even the big box stores might be closing down soon,-thanks Amazon!

It's not about selling products, but about creating a whole order of motivated labor/consumer units who can keep winding up the machine, forever. Think about 'woke' dove soap ads and how they are really just a more insidious way of linking your identity to the product. The product is good and makes you a good person. Everything feels like a condescending pep talk.

The recent upsurge in 'Identity politics' is all about the loss of identity, which has been long reduced to mere labels. A study of the Canadian Poetess Rupi Kaur, Martin Zellner(the spokesman of the 'identitarians' in Austria) and your average college student reveals them as mere inter-exchangable avatars of the eternal Californian.

>full insurrectionist neo situ
Can you explain what this means?

The Spectacle is the concrete inversion of life, retard.

any pictures?

... any GOOD pictures? like by Jean Giraud?

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Debord was, like Robert Faurisson, Jacques Camatte, Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala and many others in the french ultra left revolutionary avant garde millieu, a convinced national socialist and holocaust revisionist who came to embrace unreconstructed Hitlerism as the logical conclusion to Marxist thought. 'Spectacle' is merely a codeword for Jews, meant to mislead the agents of ZOG. James Mason's SIEGE is the ideal companion book to Society of the Spectacle. HELTER SKELTER. ANIMAL TO ANIMAL.

youtube.com/watch?v=fLe2muuJ9fs
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Tim McVeigh was a Tom Paine, a Saint-Just, maybe even a Jean Jacques Rousseau born 200 years too late, America's answer to the Russian nihilists and the Baader gang.
youtube.com/watch?v=JSw_eKucmVw

Deconstructionist philosophy.

Spectacles is another term for glasses. Society of the Spectacle makes me think it's a cult that worships half an eyewear.

Broke: society of the spectacle

Woke:

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