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Welcome to the Spectacle . . .

In 1967 French revolutionary Guy Debord published a landmark critique of consumer culture, The Society of the Spectacle. Twenty years later he published Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, in which he states:

"In all that has happened in the last twenty years, the most important change lies in the very continuity of the spectacle. This has nothing to do with its perfecting of its media instruments, which had already reached a highly advanced stage of development: it means quite simply that the spectacle's domination has succeeded in raising a whole generation molded to its laws. The extraordinary new conditions in which this entire generation has effectively lived constitute a precise and comprehensive summary of all that, henceforth, the spectacle will forbid; and also all that it will permit."

The videos of Thus Spoke The Spectacle explore these "extraordinary new conditions" under which we live.

The Spectacle speaks to us every day of our lives.

Thus Spoke The Spectacle is an attempt to show you what it says.