Spectacular power, which is so fundamentally unitary, so concentrated by the very weight of things, and entirely despotic in spirit, frequently rails at the appearance in its realm of a spectacular politics, a spectacular justice, a spectacular medicine and all the other similarly surprising examples of “media excess.”
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle §3
The root of the spectacle is that oldest of all social specializations, the specialization of power.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §23
All separate power has been spectacular.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §25
Power
creates nothing; it co-opts.
Internationale situationniste #8
Power is the sum of alienated
and alienating mediations.
Raoul Vaneigem, Traité de savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations