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Episode 170: Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Commodification Is the World of the Commodity

The spectacle is the stage at which the commodity has succeeded in totally colonizing social life. Modern economic production extends into dictatorship both extensively and intensively. It goes on alienated consumption has become just as much a duty for the masses as alienated production.

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