situationists and spectacle
Summing up the Situationists’ great complaint, Larry Law observed: “We live in a spectacular society, that is, our whole life is surrounded by an immense accumulation of spectacles. Things that were once directly lived are now lived by proxy. Once an experience is taken out of the real world it becomes a commodity. As a commodity the spectacular is developed to the detriment of the real. It becomes a substitute for experience…. To survive, the spectacle must have social control. It can recuperate a potentially threatening situation by shifting ground, creating dazzling alternatives — or by embracing the threat, making it safe and then selling it back to us.”
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The previous excerpt is from infiltration.org > usufruct, a blog of random comments on goings-on related to urban exploration.
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Should this place be destroyed by developers for an apartment complex or does the community deserve something better? Can grass-roots efforts hang on to this valuable, un-official urban park for posterity?
RANDOM: derelict vessels
11 August 2004, 12:34 ::
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— Guy Debord 2004-08-11 19:11 #