It's a really good book
Debord was a Marxist unlike most of the French thinkers at the time and realized that the modern consumerist society had different materialistic properties than in Marx's time that needed to be addressed
Society of the Spectacle
Colton Stewart
Charles Campbell
It's pretty good until the last chapter where he fucking veers off a cliff and conceptualizes communism as the abolishment of linear time. Like what the fuck is that?
Hudson Howard
What do you think history is?
Grayson Gray
lmoa retard
Carson Ross
Didn't Benjamin say essentially the same thing? Then again kaballah magick isn't materialist.
Jeremiah Hall
Nope.
He stated that our SUBJECTIVE UNDERSTANDING of time changed to something more linear with the development of capitalism due to its importance in industrial production, compared to a sense of permanence within times of greater leisure. You're putting way too much of a metaphysical spin on this, there's no ontological argument being made on either side.
He doesn't even say communism would end that subjective sense of linear time, he just hopes that we can square the difference and allow societal development and improvement, which a linear sense of time is conducive to, to continue, without creating the alienation of peoples lives being tied to a punch-in clocks or an impulse for perpetual growth.
Logan Richardson
Just to avoid being misinterpreted "greater leisure" refers to agrarian and feudal societies where there were times where work was nearly impossible, i.e. the winter, not some time of comfort.
To elaborate further, the feudal "cyclical" time isn't some sort of eternal return either, it's just that since production and subsistence was tied to directly to the seasons, the idea of time as an inherent factor in the change of politics or society or economics wasn't yet possible. No one is seriously suggesting that a serf sees time nonlinearly going from 1302 to 1322 back to 1287 at random.
Isaiah Hill
It has some important ideas, the sections on the USSR are typical European garbage though. short book so why not just read it?
funny cuz situationists made a documentary called "Call it sleep," guess they meant they actually were trying to put people to sleep
Anthony Martinez
If I've already seen adam curtis movies will I just be reading things I already know
Elijah Fisher
Century of the self is not society of the spectacle.
Besides, that century of the self was fucking weird in its conclusions. Typical liberal tripe that criticizes everything except capitalism itself.