Monday, October 27, 2014

La société du spectacle


The ever-more-crucial idea of the “Society of the Spectacle” -- which dates back to the Rome of panem et circenses, passing (in our time) through Guy Debord -- is now front-and-center  in much of what we see.
E.g. this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/27/in-bizarre-new-video-islamic-state-hostage-gives-tour-of-kobane/

(I am old, and tired, and cannot comment now;  but must seek my couch, and the arms of Somnus, yea the balm of Lethe,  ere I wake …)

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