"2. Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialisation of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle is its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such , the autonomous movement of non life.
3. The spectacle appears at once as society itself, as a part of society and as a means of unification. As part of society, it is that sector where all attention, all consciousness, converges. Being isolated - and precisely for that reason -this sector is the locus of illusion and false consciousness; the unity it imposes is merely the official language of generalised separation.
4. The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images
5. The spectacle cannot be understood either as a deliberate distortion of the visual world or as a product of the technology of the mass dissemination of images. It is far better viewed as a weltanschauung (: a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world especially from a specific standpoint) that has been actualised, translated into the material realm - a world view transformed into an objective force."
I like these quotes, especially point 4 maybe we should have a discussion about the idea of a collection of images...
Alice
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