debord

There are many myths about liberal democracy: that all of us are free to make our own decisions, that it is the greatest organization of society ever achievable, that it is the end point in an emancipatory struggle against systems of oppression, and that as uncontrolled artists we are free to create anything we want out of our lives. I believe democracy has to be understood through its most sophisticated tool for manufacturing consent - the spectacle. Democracy itself is represented to us from within the spectacle. Now more than ever we see that it's the spectacle which operates our lives, drawing everything in, recuperating it, and spitting it back out for popular consumption.

Director: Joseph La Sac
Title of Film: Democracy is a Spectacle
Tags:

• debord
• democracy
• end of history
• situationiste internationale
• spectacle

Date Uploaded: July 22nd, 2008
City: Tacoma

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