Spectacular Society Quotes

“The status of celebrity offers the promise of being showered with ‘all good things’ that capitalism has to offer. The grotesque display of celebrity lives (and deaths) is the contemporary form of the cult of personality; those ‘famous for being famous’ hold out the spectacular promise of the complete erosion of a autonomously lived life in return for an apotheosis as an image.

- From Martin Jenkins' Introduction”
― Martin Jenkins, The Society of the Spectacle

“I'd like there to be a revolution, but everybody's too busy shopping.”
― Benjamin Zephaniah, I'm an Anarchist because I've been wronged, and I've seen everything else fail