The Society of the Spectacle
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What’s it about?
A radical critique of modern life, revealing how images and commodities have replaced authentic experience, turning us all into passive spectators.
You’ll learn
- The spectacle is a social relationship mediated by images
- Capitalism colonizes desire, not just production
- History is frozen in an eternal, commodified present
- Resistance means reclaiming lived experience