Episode 170: Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Spectacle Is the Currency of Our Social Interactions
The spectacle represents the consumption as the ultimate value. What an entire society can be and do, its aspirations are sort of defined by the market economy. So it's like money in the sense that it's exchangeable for these commodities.
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