RHETOR 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Proletarianization, Guy Debord
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The highest degree of illusion is the highest degree of sacredness. Whole life of societies is the accumulation of spectacles. Images are detached from every aspect of life and merged into a common stream image unification generalized separation people mediated by images addition to the world but the very heart of society"s real unreality of production. Former unity of life is lost forever. Reality is apprehended in a partial way. Specialization of images finds its highest expression in the autonomous. Spectacle appears as (1) society itself (2) part of society (3) means of. Unity imposed by the spectacle is merely the official language of. Spectacle not collection of images, but the social relationship between. Both the outcome and goal of the dominant mode of production; not an. Language of spectacle is composed of signs of the dominant organization. Negation of life that has invented a visual form for itself. Manifests itself as an enormous positivity, out of reach and beyond.
