Before revision: Description Debord uses the word "Spectacle" to describe an overall social phenomenon where everything directly lived recedes into a representation, describing it as "a separate pseudo-world that can only be looked at" created from the rearrangement from fragmented images taken from every aspect of life.Debord (1967) thesis 2 It is a worldview that identifies human social life with appearances, Debord (1967) thesis 10. leading to the perceived autonomous motion of commodities and images and the negation of social life.
After revision: The Society of the Spectacle,The Society of the Spectacle,Description Debord uses the word "Spectacle" to describe an overall social phenomenon where everything directly lived recedes into a representation, describing it as "a separate pseudo-world that can only be looked at" created from the rearrangement from fragmented images taken from every aspect of life.Debord (1967) thesis 2 It is a worldview that identifies human social life with appearances, Debord (1967) thesis 10. leading to the perceived autonomous motion of commodities and images and the negation of social life.