>On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Alec Ramsdell wrote:
>
> > And Debord points forward to the hippie/rock revolt cum capitalist
> > enterprise in 1967's _The Society of the Spectacle_, thesis 59:
>
>And the whole rest of the book. I forgot about that. It played a huge
>role in popularizing this idea that capitalism now absorbed most
>rebellions and developed antibodies. Especially among artists and
>students. And ironically, it was also the main source of the idea that
>transgressive gestures (of which "detournment" was the prototype) could
>have a real political effects. In Debord's situationist logic, the fact
>that the Spectacle was so total, and warped all organized efforts at
>opposition into support for itself, was supposed somehow at the same time
>to make isolated gestures of subversion that much more capable of
>reverberating throughout the entire system.
>
>Michael
one dimensional man, herbert marcuse 1964
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