
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 Concrete Inversion of Life
The spectacle is the whole machinery of society that turns individuals into consumers as well as producers. So if you think about it in the basis terms, the spectacle is the concrete inversion of life. There's a part in here. It might be west, it might be in chapter two. My notes are all based on the actual numbers of the aphorisms. I think it's starting around the 40s.
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