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I was reading earlier about the wikipedia page for "The Society of Spectacle" and this might be relevant here:

> The Society of the Spectacle is a critique of contemporary consumer culture and commodity fetishism. Before the term "globalization" was popularized, Debord was arguing about issues such as class alienation, cultural homogenization, and the mass media.

Also:

> "The spectacle is not a collection of images," Debord writes, "rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images."

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