MCC-UE 1028 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Situationist International
27 Feb 2017
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Professor of modern art & theory @ columbia university. Techniques of the observer: on vision and modernity in the 19th century (1990), and. Suspensions of perception: attention, spectacle and modern culture (2000). Late capitalism and the ends of sleep by jonathan crary 2013. A debate as to its efficacy as a term. Term has become ubiquitous - and that is a problem. The super bowl spectacle includes a variety of media genres & a variety of imagery. An organization of social student activists and social activists made up of artists and intellectuals and political theorists, and were active in europe from 1957- T. j clarke suggests the 19th century: the extension of the market, the transition from small entrepreneurial capitalism to larger corporate forms of monopoly. The diffused spectacle: the technical perfection of tv: 1927. The spectacle was to become inseparable from this new kind of image & its speed, & ubiquity (over time: the jazz singer, 1927.
