ENG 378 Study Guide - Fall 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Ontology, Skepticism, Simulation
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Guy deboard & society of the spectacle: old school, world of production. Alienation of worker from what is produced: use value gives way to exchange values. Watching or listening: the whole life of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All that once was directly lived has become mere representation. (12: images detaches from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency towards the specialization of images of the world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous images, where deceit deceives itself. It is the opposite of dialogue. (17: how we relate to images/commodities. Fall 2018: mass produced media, our reply to big media.
