Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle

Trier, James

doi:10.1598/jaal.51.1.7

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“…50 James Trier argued that the film The Matrix carries "great resonance between Debord's concept of the spectacle and the cinematic science fiction representation of a world of near total separation and passivity." 51 In other words, the spectacle is a social relation that presents itself as reality. For Debord, the spectacle "appears to leave no room for escape or for the expression of any individual or group agency."…”

Section: Social Media and The Spectacle Of Political Expressionmentioning

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Trolling Free Speech Rallies: Social Media Practices and the (Un)Democratic Spectacle of Dissent

Asenas

Hubble

2018

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The purpose of our article addresses two concerns of the special issue: taken for granted assumptions in the academy and complicating the way in which we have contented ourselves with anger at the expense of thoughtful engagement. Our essay explores the influence of Twitter on public dissent. We analyze the YouTube videos posted about the April 17th Free Speech rally as a text that demonstrates how the conventions of Twitter both shape how people publicly participate in and "report" dissent. Based on our analysis, we argue that the mapping of Twitter conventions onto both public dissent and citizen reporting turns the ACLU mantra of "'combat[ing] hate speech with more speech'" on its head. So, while we agree that political expression and dissent are necessary to democracy, this kind of expression and dissent cultivates political resentment that undermines the foundations of democracy. We conclude with scholars' responsibility to address this situation by cultivating both the right and responsibility of expression by balancing tolerance with respect and speaking and listening.

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Section: Social Media and The Spectacle Of Political Expressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trolling Free Speech Rallies: Social Media Practices and the (Un)Democratic Spectacle of Dissent

Asenas

Hubble

2018

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“…Among the Situationist International's (SI) approaches in subverting the spectacle, for example, psychogeography and dérive, (Trier 2007;Shukaitis 2014), détournement is of particular interest regarding alternative media. Détournement refers to 'the rearrangement of preexisting aesthetic elements (or ideas) in new contexts in a way that changes their meaning' in order to produce 'more subversive or antagonistic' meanings (Shukaitis,258).…”

Section: Spectacle Strategy and Digital Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Spectacle 2.0: Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism

Armano¹,

Briziarelli²

2017

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AcknowledgementsThe spectacle thus unites what is separate, but it unites it only in its separateness (Thesis 29, 1967) Un ringraziamento particolare va a Christian Fuchs per aver discusso in profondità il progetto editoriale e per averlo sostenuto in quanto editore e revisore. Siamo altresì grati a Kylie Jarrett e Eran Fisher per averci incoraggiato nelle fasi iniziali di ideazione.iv The Spectacle 2.0Alla stesura di questo libro hanno anche collaborato, del tutto involontariamente, Romano Alquati, Tom Bunyard and Jonathan Crary. Non sempre è stato possibile esplicitarlo ma la lettura di alcuni dei loro scritti ha sensibilmente influenzato gli autori. Marco Briziarelli and Emiliana Armano Competing interestsThe editor and contributors declare that they have no competing interests in publishing this book The full text of this book has been peer-reviewed to ensure high academic standards. For full review policies, see:

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“…As Baym (2005) pointed out, The Daily Show uses "the same raw material as does the mainstream news," but the ways the show uses the sound bites turn "contemporary conventions on their head" (p. 264). A main technique that The Daily Show uses is the "critical art" (Debord, 1989(Debord, /1963) known as detournement (which I have written about elsewhere; see Trier, 2007aTrier, , 2007b. Plant (1992) defined detournement in the following way:…”

Section: Daily Detournementsmentioning

confidence: 99%