In the opening thesis of The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord (2021) says that 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 a mere representation. He adds that the accumulation of this kind of landscape even dominates the real society and the real world. According to Debord, spectacle is not something added to the real world—a decorative element. On the contrary, it is the very heart of society’s real unreality in all its specific manifestations. In advertising, entertainment, and social landscape, a spectacle has become the dominant mode of life.

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The Cultural Spectacle

  • Yirong Hu

摘要

In the opening thesis of The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord (2021) says that 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 a mere representation. He adds that the accumulation of this kind of landscape even dominates the real society and the real world. According to Debord, spectacle is not something added to the real world—a decorative element. On the contrary, it is the very heart of society’s real unreality in all its specific manifestations. In advertising, entertainment, and social landscape, a spectacle has become the dominant mode of life.