[icebraining]

"All that once was directly lived has become mere representation."

"Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle

[chillwaves]

Can watch a rework here (I liked it).

https://vimeo.com/60328678

[AndrewKemendo]

Thanks for that. Very much a rabbit hole for Situationism which I had only ever barely interacted with when I was more active in Anarchist philosophy.

[personlurking]

Interesting. The next book on my shelf to read is "Civilization of the Spectacle" by Mario Vargas Llosa.

http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2013/january/la-civiliza...

[icebraining]

The similarity is probably not a coincidence; Debord's book is the most significant text of the Situationist movement, which was quite influential in the New Left, particularly in the 60s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International