47 | Guy Debord and the Society of the Spectacle
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Real Economy Is a Place of Speculation
i think that this comes back to his beef with economy, where he seems to think the economy is a place of speculation, is a spectacular sight. And so it's not about even can we see the real economy? He's saying that to live under the dominion of something like the economy is to be beholden to a certain form of speculation, spectacularizing. Where it isn't about yo, the real realityis being hidden by the phenomenal realm. It is that actually real reality is this u perceptual engagement of generating pseudo needs.
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