FILM 3660 1nd Edition Lecture 8 Outline of Last Lecture I Guy Debord a Spectacle II 6 Ways Spectacle is Seen III The Ontology of the Spectacle IV The Theology of the Spectacle V Reification and Commodity Fetishism VI Detournement VII FILM NOTES Outline of Current Lecture I Redefining Key Terms II New Key Terms Current Lecture Redefining Key Terms Jameson Debord How does Debord view the world Jameson and Debord have same problem with society but different solutions Everyday Life The leisure moments of un administered life Situations constructed events that merge the urban the aesthetic and the political Alienation Making 1000 lattes not being connected with others around our atmosphere or our creations Reification the human impersonation of inert and inanimate machines and images Thing afaction Gives life to something that doesn t have life Ex IPHONE Commodity Fetishism the erroneous endowment of commodities with a magical power of their own getting turned on by a car iPad attachment separation anxiety from cell phone Spectacle Social relation of humans to images not just collection of images Avant Guard Debord believes that spectacle mediates interactions and blocks interactions Separation there These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute is something between us and the world we engage in is no longer fluid Theology of the spectacle CULTURAL STRATEGIES 1 La Derive going mindlessly from A to B without consciously home driving and not paying attention just showing p like what 2 Psycho geography Take a different route or way home so that we can break up the numbness of our mind Walking without direction or cause for mind expansion When we are in a rush and start to notice the things around you that have always been but you previously missed 3 Unitary Urbanism The construction and reconstruction of modular pieces this is an exciting strategy to avoid La Derive 4 Le Detournement You need to take something that already exists and find some alternative use for it so we can denote new meaning to it It isn t an accumulation of things it is a reinvented new way of making sense of things Creativity has nothing to do with originality it has everything to do with renovating redesigning ALEGORY Creativity under postmodern Re purposing new meaning New Key Terms Abstraction is a process or result of generalization removal of properties or distancing of ideas from objects Making a book out of sandpaper uncomfortable feelings Fluid vs Frozen A Frozen society slow down historical activity to the limit and maintained in constant equilibrium their opposition to the natural and human environment as well as their internal oppositions Claiming that commodification of items of making a spectacle of something takes life away from it we can t reach out and engage physically with these images Touching and engagement is fluid and gives us life Detournement example Arts Since 1900 s text Picture of man standing on bridge looking a river paint is splattered on him Important to evaluate both parts of this art and thus shift the contents Bracket the historical context
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