![]() The spectacle grasped in its totality is both the result and the project of the existing mode of production. It is a world vision which has become objectified. It is, rather, a Weltanschauung which has become actual, materially translated. The spectacle cannot be understood as an abuse of the world of vision, as a product of the techniques of mass dissemination of images. The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. Due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is the common ground of the deceived gaze and of false consciousness, and the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of generalized separation. ![]() As a part of society it is specifically the sector which concentrates all gazing and all consciousness. The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as all of society, as part of society, and as instrument of unification. The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living. The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be reestablished. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. ![]() ![]() Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.įeuerbach, Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence. ![]()
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