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Society Distracted by Off-Camera Spectacle
Hashtags: #CriticalTheory #Neoliberalism #FrankfurtSchool #Journalism #Spectacle #FakeNews #Situationists #Authentic #Photography
Society Distracted by Off-Camera Spectacle
#CriticalTheory #Neoliberalism #FrankfurtSchool #Journalism #Spectacle #FakeNews #Situationists #Authentic #Photography
Source: https://take-note.com/note-takers/marshall--mayer/notes/society-distracted-by-off-camera-spectacle/view
#CriticalTheory #Neoliberalism #FrankfurtSchool #Journalism #Spectacle #FakeNews #Situationists #Authentic #Photography
Source: https://take-note.com/note-takers/marshall--mayer/notes/society-distracted-by-off-camera-spectacle/view
"“I think, at this moment in particular, we need to be reminded to be disobedient"
She was an artist and the editor of the Situationist International: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jul/01/jacqueline-de-jong-influential-avant-garde-artist-dies-at-85 #SI #deJong #art #situationists
The Guardian · Jacqueline de Jong, influential avant garde artist, dies at 85
Seen at Mercer St. Books: this early-'80s edition of Vaneigem's "Revolution of Everyday Life" (Left Bank Books). I *never* see copies of this. I know this is in pristine condition because the type rubs off the cover after a while. (The cover of my copy is blank.) #Situationists
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Always think long term and assume we'll win. Or as the situationists put it in the 1960s, "be realistic, demand the impossible!"
Huh. I never thought about it before, but this is a very pithy description of corporate social media DataFarms:
"The spectacle is not an aggregate of images but a social relation among people, mediated by images."
Guy Record, 'The Society of the Spectacle'
Quoted in:
https://libcom.org/article/review-whatever-happened-situationists
libcom.orgReview: Whatever happened to the Situationists?A steady trickle of publications about the situationists testifies to the market value of their ideas, but it also reminds us of the continued requirement for revolutionaries to engage with them. In this review we look at two recent books. Ken Knabb's Public Secrets illustrates the self-obsessed nature of the situationist milieu after the heady days of 1968. What is Situationism? A Reader includes Barrot's important critique of the Situationist International for their one-sided emphasis on circulation rather then production.
