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redpill me on The Society of the Spectacle and the Situationists

>As the expression of power's irreversible time, chronicles were a means of maintaining the voluntaristic forward progression of this time on the basis of the recording of its past; "voluntaristic," because such an orientation is bound to collapse, along with the particular power to which it corresponds, and sink once more into the indifferent oblivion of a solely cyclical time, a time known to the peasant masses who - no matter that empires may crumble along with their chronologies - never change. Those who possessed history gave it an orientation - a direction, and also a meaning. But their history unfolded and perished apart, as a sphere leaving the underlying society unaffected precisely because it was a sphere separate from common reality. This is why, from our point of view, the history of Oriental societies may be reduced to a history of religions: all we can reconstruct from their ruins is the seemingly independent history of the illusions that once enveloped them.

Is Debord's point in Time and History to show how the proletariat has not only been alienated from his work through division of labor, but separated from his history as the bourgeoisie impose cyclical time onto them while simultaneously writing their own history apart from reality?

wtf is he on about?

>>22363
middle class family in spic peripheral country. imo most people don't realise how all pervasive capitalism is. It's rather naive to equate 'freedom' with capitalism, as it is a system that depends on nonstop intensive psywar for its smooth functioning and is ultimately enforced by the barrel of a gun.

Pic related and vid related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKFIHRpe7I

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"The constant decline of use value that has always characterized the capitalist economy has given rise
to a new form of poverty within the realm of augmented survival — alongside the old poverty which
still persists, since the vast majority of people are still forced to take part as wage workers in the
unending pursuit of the system’s ends and each of them knows that he must submit or die. The reality
of this blackmail — the fact that even in its most impoverished forms (food, shelter) use value now has
no existence outside the illusory riches of augmented survival — accounts for the general acceptance
of the illusions of modern commodity consumption. The real consumer has become a consumer of
illusions. The commodity is this materialized illusion, and the spectacle is its general expression."

What did he mean by augmented survival? And does illusion only refer to the deception of paying for stuff for their use? Shit doesn't make sense

"Such inactivity, however, is by no means emancipated from
productive activity: it remains in thrall to that activity, in an uneasy and worshipful subjection to
production's needs and results; indeed it is itself a product of the rationality of production. There
can be no freedom apart from activity, and within the spectacle all activity is banned a corollary
of the fact that all real activity has been forcibly channeled into the global construction of the
spectacle. So what is referred to as "liberation from work," that is, increased leisure time, is a
liberationneitherwithinlaboritselfnorfrom theworldlaborhasbroughtintobeing."

Where the fuck is the justification for this? Is this the typical Marxist claim that reaping the benefits of the system solidifies it's grasp over us?

Is Society of Spectacle worth my money?

>>9027388
This is the book for you if you really want to get WOKE. Debord's later Comments on the Society of the Spectacle explain the current disinfo world order in a surprisingly clear/concise fashion

So was Guy Debord right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKFIHRpe7I

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>>8793748
>pro-capitalism
turbocucked

Let's take a classic thread and do it in reverse.

Post a book, get an image. An artist's depiction of a scene in the book? Maybe something more abstract?

(For pic related I'd like something I can't find from a simple search, but, of course, situationist art is always cool.)

Let's try this thread in reverse. Rec me images based on this book, preferably stuff I can't find from a simple "situationist art" search

He depicted the smart-phone culture before any idea of cell-phones was even conceived.

>Psychogeography is an approach to geography that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting" around urban environments. It has links to the Situationist International. Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."[1] Another definition is "a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities... just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape."[2]

>In psychogeography, a dérive (French: [/de.ʁiv/], "drift") is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, on which the subtle aesthetic contours of the surrounding architecture and geography subconsciously direct the travellers, with the ultimate goal of encountering an entirely new and authentic experience. Situationist theorist Guy Debord defines the dérive as "a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances."

>Dérives are necessary, according to situationist theory, because of the increasingly predictable and monotonous experience of everyday life in advanced capitalism.[2] The dérive grants a rare instance of pure chance, an opportunity for an utterly new and authentic experience of the different atmospheres and feelings generated by the urban landscape.[2]


do any of you go for dérives? what are your experiences with them?

What exactly separates spectacle from Althusser's interpretation of ideology? I'm going through this at the moment and a whole lot of it basically just a looser version of Ideological State Apparatus with its eye on Art and Entertainment, rather than including education and religion like Althusser did.

what have you done to combat the spectacle lately?

Hey all, so I need some radical literature recs. Been through Classical Marxism, Classical Sociology, Adorno, Kropotkin, Foucault et al., the anti-natalists, the Situationists, Codreanu, Zen Buddhism and Jung. Any suggestions for radical shit I've missed?

>>7144318
We live here

But don't get this edition.

Is Situationist writing worth reading /lit/?