I guess the glasses would not be a spectacle in itself, but an spectacle's enhancer ..

Woaaahhh duuuudeee

Hopefully not sold by Spectacular Optic Inc.

I do not think you understand irony

​@@robtaylor-manning4871 The spectacle is the failed love between Narcissus and Echo, being the mirror image the mediator .. the irony is that it becomes a blind spot ..

I saw that to... wonder which program he uses... gosh, I wish my teaching lessons had this spectacle so students would be with googled eyes watching and learning

And why stop there? Let’s keep going, for future readers of your comment (and hopefully mine). A psychologist’s job is to improve your mental condition, and to do that in any time that is meaningful to you, they can’t give you the answer “yeah, just go organize the proletariat and do a revolution lol”. Your mental condition is bad now, an answer that gives you hard to achieve political goals that will take years/decades to transpire won’t help you now. This is to say that the function of everything under a given economic system becomes purposed for that economic system and it doesn’t even have to be because some shadowy figure behind the scenes made it that way. The takeaway here is that 1. This was going to happen to psychology (and other fields like history, sociology, economics, etc.) anyway, regardless of if Thatcher or Reagan had come to power. It’s a function of the field existing under capitalism. 2. Fields under capitalism must justify their existence, or they cease to exist. Therefore, there’s a necessary depoliticization of fields in order to meet the immediate demands of capitalism. Vicious cycle…

@@ssgdhgsdfff8887 I’m in a visual arts program as a graduate student, hadn’t heard or was taught Debord ever, only picked up on him through my own artistic research. I would guess that a philosophy program would be your best bet in terms of being assigned him in undergraduate classes, but I’ve only taken a single PhD level philosophy class so I’m not really sure what’s on the average undergrad philosophy syllabus

I would also recommend chapter 1 of Anselm Jappe's book on Debord. Best explanation of all the different concepts in SotS and their antecedents.

Why can't you do it yourself?

What was JB’s mistake on 9/11? The Spirit of Terrorism is great imo

@@Jake-eu4ec ah I thought there was almost an apologetic note in that for his previous writing on terror and the gulf war articles.. been a while but doesn't he denigrate the false flag narrative (a bit tenuously) and basically argue that the towers committed suicide for architectural reasons?

It really depends on what you use these commodities for. Literature, for example, can also be turned into commodities (books), but they can create social awareness and change. Therefor, they aren't merely spectacular. Then there's pop music. MGMT's first album, Oracular Spectacular, is incredibly catchy and pop. Their second album, Congratulations, punches alot of holes on the effects of their own success (they have said in multiple interviews that most songs of OS were written during their college years as an exercise in pop music. The music they wanted to make was scratched by the label and they were forced to create a pop record.) and even pokes fun at pop musicians who don't mind being abused by their labels (Lady Dada's Nightmare is a pun on Lady Gaga). Only their third album, the self-titled MGMT, marks the first time MGMT was given complete creative control by their label. Even then, the album cover shows the band hanging out in front of a pawn shop, being quite aware that their own sound would scare away alot of their initial "fans". So even though their first two albums are spectacular, they educated a generation on the history of pop culture and artists that willingly dived into it with a variety of results and strategies to destroy capitalism from within (Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Nirvana,...), or to become a talking head for the industry (like Gaga), and their references to 60's (and later 80's) counterculture in both their music as well as their music videos (Time To Pretend recreates the money burning scene from Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain) generated a spectacle that warned a generation obsessed with becoming rich and famous by exploiting their misery to not jump blindly into an industry that only cares to treat you like grease to their hungry machine. If any band influenced "woke" culture in the 00's, it's definitely MGMT. So is spectacle always bad? I dunno. Pretending to be spectacle seems to work out sometimes.

You'd think, but we do not live forever, and the old innovations can be repackaged as new for our children. I doubt there will be a day when the TV stops spitting out content.

Respond with sincerity, mindfulness and kindness.

Y'all should just get grill pilled and we can discuss revolutionary tactics over some collard greens and pulled pork (pulled jackfruit for the vegan comrades)

i do, however, support the implementation of a system in which artists and educators need not e-panhandle for their supper

im from mexico too!! let's go create a situation :0

commented so I can get an update on this if anyone manages to find it

Do you mean 'Can Dialectics Break Bricks?' The kung-fu movie but with the Marxist talking points? That is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. And so smartly written too. link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9CFgbxhmZmXdKM.html

Aussi...

I would love to know too.

Look up “thoughtmaybe” and “the society of the spectacle” and it should come up on your internet search engine

I think the praxis did not change: join a political party or organization.