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Spectacular domination has succeeded in raising an entire generation molded to its laws.
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle
When the spectacle stops talking about something for three days, it is as if it did not exist.
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle
The spectacle as a whole is nothing other than this era, an era in which a certain youth has recognized itself. It is the gap between that image and its consequences; the gap between the visions, tastes, refusals and projects that previously characterized this youth and the way it has advanced into ordinary life.
Guy Debord, Critique de la séparation
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §1
The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §2
The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §4
The spectacle is the material reconstruction of the religious illusion.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §20
The spectacle is the ruling order’s nonstop discourse about itself, its never-ending monologue of self-praise, its self-portrait at the stage of totalitarian domination of all aspects of life.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §24
There can be no freedom apart from activity, and within the spectacle activity is nullified—all real activity having been forcibly channeled into the global construction of the spectacle.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §27
The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point that it becomes image.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §34