Society of Spectacle | Guy Debord 

Ironic that the guy who wrote a book on spectacle wears spectacles on his face which allow him to see clearly.

hell yeah. I’m going to show this to my undergraduate students, I’ve been looking for a great summarization of Debord’s concept of the spectacle in terms of late-stage capital “production”, and this absolutely fits the bill. great stuff per usual my friend!

im tired of living in the SPECTACLE grampa

It's probably why people smile when they are protesting. They are not smiling about the protest. They are smiling about the social. Isolation is lonely.

i remember when princess Diana died. People were upset. And they mourned. When the Queen of England died, people turned up to "the event" to get a selfie to show "they were there" (but not taking part). Who was it who said that modern capital is sorted by consumption, not production. (Bataille?) And then Delueuzes rhizomes and the way capital strip EVERYTHING of meaning and reduces it to banalities that can be commodified and sold. I think he even said that commerce allows for almost infinite packaging options to create endless products?I feel these are all linked somehow. And while Kenneth Copeland has nothing to do with this, i feel he has everything to do with this! (joke - perhaps schizophrenic. Its the only way to escape!)

This is what George Carlin said. And everybody laughed.

Great video! I would love to see a comparison between DeBord and Baudrillard from you. Specifically Society of the Spectacle and Simulacra and Simulation.

Him and JB are owed such an apology. The right didn’t read them and dismissed them as mad while the left attacked them as crypto fash and fatalistic. But nobody got as close and what they postulated is now tangible, observably physically real.. even down to the intangibles of behaviour and habits of thought. 100% on the money. Although I bet GD wouldn’t make JB’s mistake (imo) on 9/11.

SOC and Phil professor here. When I teach this stuff like this, people get realllll shaky! I thought it was obvious to everyone when I was getting my PhD but it isn’t.

This is probably the dumbest personal tangent I’ve ever posted here (and that’s saying a lot), but … boy, what WOULDN’T I give to have a definitive and complete ruleset for that war game Guy Debord designed. (His Debord Game, LoL.) I’ve found quite a lot of conflicting info online, and I’m surprised no one from his estate seems to have ever published an authoritative ruleset.

"Radical theory isn't a real threat, it's a spectacular one". Banger 🤝💪

The quality of your creations have increased dramatically. Damn you for engaging me in your spectacle!

This RU-vid video about a book about the spactacle certainly was a spectacular consumer experience!

This is very interesting. What stood out to me quite a lot is when you said that you go to psychologist to get ‘help’ but that the solutions and treatments they offer is individualistic. This reminds me of a book on critical psychology I’m reading (Critical psychology An Introduction edited by Dennis Fox and Isaac Prilletensky) in which the authors write about a similar problem of individualization and atomization of people and how it’s a problem in psychology. And that it began to be entrenched in institutions such as the APA in the 1980s alongside the proliferation of neoliberal ideas and politics of the Reagan and Margret Thatcher eras. By influencing these institutions, it’s makes increasing difficult to address systemic and interactional problems.

Your editing is really becoming top notch. These videos are art pieces themselves, the fantastic social critique aside

The video production and editing, the effects, the cuts, they are absolutely jaw dropping. Such an incredibly well made video

How am I only finding this channel today and why don't you have like five times the subscribers you have? Thank you for the quality of content and production that you keep offering

Whenever I (or anyone) imagines something worthy of being called imaginative, someone rushes to make it into a commodity. As commodities go, these turn out to be enormously successful, which can make it seem as though imagination only perpetuates the hall of mirrors that is this spectacle, but I think it also clearly shows that what the society is starving for is innovation. Which means that the spectacle is having a corrosive effect, and not the kind that can persist indefinitely. The prattle that goes grinding around this cycle, like so much grist for the mill, must necessarily run dry. What will be spoken when we reach absolutely zero and there is thoroughly nothing left to be said?

Love your format and ability to communicate these ideas succinctly and entertainingly! Now that’s what I call a spectacle! Subbed 🎉

Cool video! These videos are not only a lot of work, they also have a real educational value!