MDSC01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Relation, Denotation, Simulacrum
Document Summary
Best known for radical political theory and their influence on may 1968 student and worker revolts in. Also founding member of the situationalist group (a group that believed that capitalism had turned contemporary life into a society of spectacle that its inhabitants could only passively watch and consume) Forms of spectacle: information, propaganda, advertisement, consumption, showbiz, shopping malls, basically all forms of media within culture, that we consume and are discoursed to. Argued that the spectacle is the product of present-day society. The spectacle is not a collection of images but a social relation amongst people mediated by images. (think time square) The spectacle is a particular vision of life, a conception of life, where the spectacle are put on for us, but we are not part of them. Overall the spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep, thus the spectacle is the guardian of sleep.
