Separation Perfected

This week I looked at the first chapter of Guy Debord's Society of The Spectacle

Basically, it's about the representation of real life becoming more important than the real, Debord calls this an inversion of life.

Debord argues that the spectacle is is a justification of the existing system's conditions and goals."that which appears is good, that which is good appears."

This is problematic when applied to art as it means a generic sort of visual imagery will be produced.

The reason this resemblance of censorship exists and survives is because of the cyclic effect of the spectacle. Social norms are most commonly depicted as they are widely accessible, however, the representations of these norms only produce more of the same.

So the spectacle starts off as a representation of what exists, but becomes real due to its existence.
Debord explains this quite well, "The spectacle is capital to such a degree of accumulation that it becomes an image."