Karl Marx: The Capital, Chapter 1., Section 1.
"The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production
prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity."
Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle
1. In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life
presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything
that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
4. The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation
among people, mediated by images.
33. Separated from his product, man himself produces all the details of
his world with ever increasing power, and thus finds himself ever more
separated from his world. The more his life is now his product, the
more he is separated from his life.
34. The spectacle is capital to such a degree of accumulation that it
becomes an image.
204. Critical theory must be communicated in its own language. It is the
language of contradiction, which must be dialectical in form as it is
in content. It is critique of the totality and historical critique. It
is not “the nadir of writing” but its inversion. It is not a negation
of style, but the style of negation.
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