Saturday, November 18, 2006

Society of the Spectacle, II

"What the spectacle offers as eternal is based on change and must change with its base. The spectacle is absolutely dogmatic and at the same time cannot really achieve any solid dogma. Nothing stops for the spectacle; this condition is natural to it, yet completely opposed to its inclination."

Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle, Black & Red, 1983. #77

1 comment:

skuo said...

This is a rather nihilistic statement. Maybe the rectangular film format is a dogma. Maybe it is too challenging a tast for to break loose from this rule. But we should still try.