“In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.”
“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. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.”
– Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
Read the Guy Debord’s entire Situationist manifesto here:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/guy-debord-the-society-of-the-spectacle.pdf
