Guy Debord * 28.12.1931
Karl Dietz
The Society of the Spectacle
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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Debord, Guy 1931-1994
438 works in 1,497 publications in 19 languages and 13,177 library holdings
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> > > http://www.nothingness.org/SI/ eine englisch-u. eine
> > > französischsprachige Version bereit zum Download!
> > > (http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/pub_contents/4
> > text von guy debord in engl.
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> > In fact, it is necessary to finish with any notion of personal
> > property in this area. The appearance of new necessities outmodes
> > previous "inspired" works. They become obstacles, dangerous habits.
> > The point is not whether we like them or not. We have to go beyond
> > them.
> >
> > Any elements, no matter where they are taken from, can serve in making
> > new combinations. The discoveries of modern poetry regarding the
> > analogical structure of images demonstrate that when two objects are
> > brought together, no matter how far apart their original contexts may
> > be, a relationship is always formed. Restricting oneself to a personal
> > arrangement of words is mere convention. The mutual interference of
> > two worlds of feeling, or the bringing together of two independent
> > expressions, supersedes the original elements and produces a synthetic
> > organization of greater efficacy. Anything can be used.
> >
> > It goes without saying that one is not limited to correcting a work or
> > to integrating diverse fragments of out-of-date works into a new one;
> > one can also alter the meaning of those fragments in any appropriate
> > way, leaving the imbeciles to their slavish preservation of
> > "citations."
> >
Karl Dietz
The Society of the Spectacle
1.
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Karl Dietz
Karl Dietz
des Lebens, in die wir eingeschlossen sind. Wir wissen, daß es möglich ist, diese Veränderung mit geeigneten Aktionen durchzusetzen."
Guy Debord: Rapport zur Konstruktion von Situationen
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Karl Dietz
Karl Dietz
"Wir meinen zunächst, daß die Welt verändert werden muß. Wir wollen die größtmögliche emanzipatorische Veränderung der Gesellschaft und des Lebens, in die wir eingeschlossen sind. Wir wissen, daß es möglich ist, diese Veränderung mit geeigneten Aktionen durchzusetzen."
Guy Debord: Rapport zur Konstruktion von Situationen
The Society of the Spectacle
1.
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
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The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be reestablished. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation. The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living.
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The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as all of society, as part of society, and as instrument of unification. As a part of society it is specifically the sector which concentrates all gazing and all consciousness. Due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is the common ground of the deceived gaze and of false consciousness, and the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of generalized separation.
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The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
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The spectacle cannot be understood as an abuse of the world of vision, as a product of the techniques of mass dissemination of images. It is, rather, a Weltanschauung which has become actual, materially translated. It is a world vision which has become objectified.
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The spectacle grasped in its totality is both the result and the project of the existing mode of production. It is not a supplement to the real world, an additional decoration. It is the heart of the unrealism of the real society. In all its specific forms, as information or propaganda, as advertisement or direct entertainment consumption, the spectacle is the present model of socially dominant life. It is the omnipresent affirmation of the choice already made in production and its corollary consumption. The spectacle’s form and content are identically the total justification of the existing system’s conditions and goals. The spectacle is also the permanent presence of this justification, since it occupies the main part of the time lived outside of modern production.
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Separation is itself part of the unity of the world, of the global social praxis split up into reality and image. The social practice which the autonomous spectacle confronts is also the real totality which contains the spectacle. But the split within this totality mutilates it to the point of making the spectacle appear as its goal. The language of the spectacle consists of signs of the ruling production, which at the same time are the ultimate goal of this production.
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Karl Dietz
we explicitly reject the word, we refuse the doctrine. We have wanted to define -- as much as possible, we have begun to experiment with -- a practically situationist activity. In the sense of creating situations or moments, if one can use that word. Environments and actions, in interaction. Guy Debord
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"Wir meinen zunächst, daß die Welt verändert werden muß. Wir wollen die größtmögliche emanzipatorische Veränderung der Gesellschaft und des Lebens, in die wir eingeschlossen sind. Wir wissen, daß es möglich ist, diese Veränderung mit geeigneten Aktionen durchzusetzen."
Guy Debord: Rapport zur Konstruktion von Situationen
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1.
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
2.
The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be reestablished. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation. The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living.
3.
The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as all of society, as part of society, and as instrument of unification. As a part of society it is specifically the sector which concentrates all gazing and all consciousness. Due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is the common ground of the deceived gaze and of false consciousness, and the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of generalized separation.