SPECTACLED SOCIETY
from Guy deBord's "The Society of the Spectacle" (1967)
adaptation/compression by Adriene Jenik

Two Avs  whispering over din of Palace goingson
 

Av1: Separation perfected

Av2: Illusion only is sacred

Av1: Truth profane

Av2: Illusion only is sacred

Av1: Truth profane

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Av2: The spectacle is not a collection of images

Av1: but a social relation among people mediated by images

Av2: The spectacle is both the result

Av1: and the project

Av2: of the existing mode of production

Av1: It is the omnipresent affirmation

Av2: of the choice already made

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Av1: You cannot contrast the spectacle to actual social activity

Av2: such a division

Av1: is itself divided

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Av2: Reality rises up within the spectacle

Av1: and the spectacle is real

Av2: this reciprocal alienation

Av1: is the essence

Av2: and support

Av1: of the existing society

Av2: it is the historical moment

Av1: in which we are caught

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