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FILM 3660 1nd Edition Lecture 11Outline of Last Lecture September 26, 2014I. Notes for Chapter 5/6 Quiz: The Society of Spectacle Outline of Current Lecture – September 28th, 20141. Overview of Reification2. Spectacle & Religion3. Commodity Fetishism 4. Media Stars5. Pseudo-Cyclical Time6. De-Differentiation7. The Solution8. The End of Art9. Structure of Debord10. DetournementCurrent Lecture:Reification: Impression of inanimate. The fluid nature of anatomy becomes still – in order to be responsible for our lives, (10 places to go before you die, 10 movies to watch before you die etc…) the responsibility is taken from a pre-programmed set of lists. For one to whom the real world becomes real images. Real Images are transformed into real beings – tangible figments that are the efficient motor of translike behavior – we watch the world pass before us and no longer create history. WHY: IMAGESWe have made an alive world of images and money and we as individuals are stuck in a trans like inanimate inactive behavior. The spectacle is immune to human activity – it is not something we engage with. We receive it passively with no agency. The more we are contemplative the more we are dispossessed. Relationship between Spectacle Religions: Moral repression – Religion and family were institutions that gave structure and shape to our lives by moral repression, (get in line act like 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.everyone else) THEY DON’T anymore. Spectacle has taken over and encourages pleasure in this current life. But it still functions like religion because the spectacle still has rules to keep us in line. We use to worship Gods, now we worship commodities – the things we buy. Commodity Fetishism: Our Commodities become mystical object – connect to reification. We don’t just buy things we use, we buy things we display. (Polo horse t-shirt, we don’t care what it looks like, it has the horse) Media Star: If you get board of one commodity, a media star brings along another one to get you interested again. Someone is living the life of leisure and wealth – someone in spotlight is opposite of what humans should be. They are enemies of us: Stars are a product of what the people watching want to see – media crafted image is what we strive for and relate with. They have a policing function and we depend on them to lead us – we try to emulate an impossible image and we are always going to come up empty. Pseudo-Cyclical Time: We consume things that impede us from living a historical life. Not only what we produce, but also during “down time” we are being swayed by commodity. Not only does consumerism take over what we work and do during the day, it takes over our leisure time too. De-Differentiation: The belief that there is no difference between production and consumption.Ex. Augmented Survival: The more we give ourselves our artificial environment, and the more often this environment refresh’s and adapts, the less we feel the need to live. All we do is act. The quality of life is only to keep up before we are left behind. It is not the years in your life it is the life in your years. Okay you are right, What is the solution?: Debord says a playful existence. How do we experiences ourselves when we are playing. The poet creates a poem – but in playful existence we enjoy things while they are happening, the experience is enough to meet our needs. Living itself is the fundamental activity we are doing. Being in the moment and enjoying it, but most times we are interested in the result, the end product, the object produced. Playful = the act of living it is more important then the product. The End of Art: Why is art a problem? It is one more distraction from living. Culture is the meaning of an insufficiently meaningful world. We seek refuge in art because we areunsatisfied. But that refuge is always incomplete and one sided. Art as a separate sphere cannotcontinue. Art must be transcended. Debord wants a generalized playfulness to all society. Structure of Debord1. Unity2. Separation between intellectual (art) and manual labor3. Transcendence of separation – art is not going to save us, it is going to make us into historical people.Detournement: Not an accumulation, once we understand language and we understand it in a new way. Swapping lives with our things. This is the aesthetic solution to rectification. It Top Hat Question:The basic 'figure' of Arte Povera artistic production is: A "juxtaposition" of the artisinal and the


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