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Re:The Society of the Spectacle by AlecSchueler on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:10AM (#21803056)
It's interesting because I can entirely see where you're coming from because Debord really does have those tendancies in his writing, but if you consider his background with the Lettrist movement and all of the avant garde artistic techqniues that they were experimenting with in the 50s (Check out some films by Isidore Isou) then you can see his later obscurantism as a development of those techniques and as an attempt to imbue those techniques with the same philisophical and political impact as his core message.

The book is really very tightly packed with ideas, working as it does.

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Re:The Society of the Spectacle by Iv on Monday December 16, 2019 @10:58AM (#21803983)
Oh, sure, Debord had his context and was experimenting.

However if you consider that philosophy is a useful field, full of serious questions that one ought to seriously try to answer, I think you have to dismiss the Lettrist movement as unhelpful at best, as a failed experience or a dead end of modern philosophy, if you are as disappointed in it as I am.

They may be an interesting literature movement, but they are as helpful to philosophy as would be people who would proclaim that all quantum theory makes more sense when expressed in Sumerian.

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Re:The Society of the Spectacle by christopherbalz on Monday December 16, 2019 @05:30PM (#21808126)
Well-said.
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