Time and the spectacle
 

Russell, 90: "The most complete and powerful definition of the spectacle is, in fact, that it is 'the false consciousness of time'"
 
for Debord, "[t]he ultimate form of the commodity, when all concrete content and possible use value has been leached from it, is time itself. In the society ruled by the 'spectacle commodity' the only real commodity is time, understood as the most abstract form of exchange value. Realizing this, the Situationists aligned their attacks upon the spectacle to concentrate all their force on the absolute negation of the commodification of time, through the deployment of their ultimate weapon: the 'constructed situation.'" (Russell's summation)
 
the spectacle insists upon "unified irreversible time" (the "time of economic production") (both quotes are Debord)
 
the situation (for Russell, "long-duration works" might also qualify) "represents the return of the perception of historical time in which progression and change are both real and under human control"

> from Bruce Russell's Left-Handed Blows: Writing on Sound 1993-2009 (2009)

> tagged with #capitalism, #situationism, #spectacularity, #time

> created Dec 2, 2024 at 9:08:03 AM


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