In the situationist view, situations are actively created moments characterized by "a sense of self-consciousness of existence within a particular environment or ambience".ĭebord encouraged the use of détournement, "which involves using spectacular images and language to disrupt the flow of the spectacle." Debord analyzes the use of knowledge to assuage reality: the spectacle obfuscates the past, imploding it with the future into an undifferentiated mass, a type of never-ending present in this way the spectacle prevents individuals from realizing that the society of spectacle is only a moment in history, one that can be overturned through revolution.ĭebord's aim and proposal is "to wake up the spectator who has been drugged by spectacular images," "through radical action in the form of the construction of situations," "situations that bring a revolutionary reordering of life, politics, and art". With such lack of authenticity, human perceptions are affected, and there's also a degradation of knowledge, with the hindering of critical thought.
from thesis 114: in the "intensified alienation of modern capitalism", "the immense majority of workers" "have lost all power over the use of their lives. from thesis 192: "The critical truth of this destruction the real life of modern poetry and art is obviously hidden, since the spectacle, whose function is to make history forgotten within culture". Being a star means specializing in the seemingly lived the star is the object of identification with the shallow seeming life that has to compensate for the fragmented productive specializations which are actually lived." from thesis 60: "The celebrity, the spectacular representation of a living human being, embodies this banality by embodying the image of a possible role. from thesis 37: "the world of the commodity dominating all that is lived". from thesis 134: "Only those who do not work live.". from thesis 16: "The spectacle subjugates living men to itself to the extent that the economy has totally subjugated them.". from thesis 8: "Lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle". This is why the spectator feels at home nowhere, because the spectacle is everywhere." The externality of the spectacle in relation to the active man appears in the fact that his own gestures are no longer his but those of another who represents them to him. thesis 30: "The alienation of the spectator to the profit of the contemplated object (which is the result of his own unconscious activity) is expressed in the following way: the more he contemplates the less he lives the more he accepts recognizing himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and his own desires. occupies the main part of the time lived outside of modern production." from thesis 10: The Spectacle is "affirmation of all human life, namely social life, as mere appearance". from thesis 17: "The first phase of the domination of the economy over social life brought into the definition of all human realization the obvious degradation of being into having" and now "of having into appearing". from Debord (1977) thesis 19: "The concrete life of everyone has been degraded into a speculative universe.". 
In his analysis of the spectacular society, Debord notes that quality of life is impoverished. "The spectacle is not a collection of images," Debord writes, "rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images." The spectacle is the inverted image of society in which relations between commodities have supplanted relations between people, in which "passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity". Debord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic social life has been replaced with its representation: "All that once was directly lived has become mere representation." Debord argues that the history of social life can be understood as "the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing." This condition, according to Debord, is the "historical moment at which the commodity completes its colonization of social life."
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