From Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle:
- “The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images.” This means that the display is not just images, it creates a social relation between people to talk about and discuss. The spectacle will affect human interactions and relationships. Instead of disregarding a spectacle as a series of images, it has a deeper meaning and message that will affect people.
- “In a world that has really been turned upside down, the true is a moment of the false.” To me this means that what we deem to be true is actually false. In this quote, he is saying that in a world that has just turned ugly, what we are looking at isn’t beauty and true, it is being hidden by providing something false. It is deceiving us to think that the world is good.
Last Week’s Reading:
- We have already not only long absorbed the costs of this conflict but learned to find them beautiful.
- We need to compare across time and space and learn to see from other people’s perspectives as well as our own.
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