47 | Guy Debord and the Society of the Spectacle
What's Left of Philosophy
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Is the Spectacle a Collection of Images?
The spectacle is not a collection of imagess, so he puts it, it's a social relation between people that is mediated by images. Images are critical to that process of atomization, the alienation, not just of us from, like, what we do, but the separation of us from each other. So there's a kind of like, you know, serialization that's essential to it. I have another aside that's like kind of tot i like these sides, a not ical point. The only way places where americans gather together is for entertainment and shopping,. Those are the only times heu'll see crowds, right?
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