Yet between the twin foci ofĭebord’s grand theorisations and the journal’s more localised pursuits, there Through the critical prism of the spectacle. Transpose this ambition to totality into the critique of “all aspects ofĪlienated social life” by investigating a range of isolated social phenomena The SI used its journal Internationale Situationniste to Text’s own focus remained grand and abstract. “integral critique of society,” in laying out the SI’s critical framework the Of society, that is, it must make a comprehensive critique of all aspects ofĪlienated social life while refusing to compromise with any form of separateĪlthough Debord’s Society of the Spectacle (1967) made the above claims for an Necessarily be levelled at the totality of spectacular society’s modes ofĭomination: “A revolutionary organisation must constitute an integral critique Social relation between people that is mediated by images.” 1 Any oppositional cultural critique, any assault upon the spectacle, must Spectacle “everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation,”Īnd though the spectacle itself is more than a collection of images, “it is a Guy Debord argued that within the society of the Mediated by the spectacle, which is the culmination and controlling mechanism Situationist International (SI) famously held that all social interaction is Want to talk about not talking about sex or, more precisely, I want to talkĪbout why someone who professes total social liberation should choose to not
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