Sign in with Facebook
“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake "public opinion" for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”
― Revolution!: Sayings of Vladimir Lenin
― Revolution!: Sayings of Vladimir Lenin
“The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
“The spectacle presents itself as a vast inaccessible reality that can never be questioned. Its sole message is: “What appears is good; what is good appears.” The passive acceptance it demands is already effectively imposed by its monopoly of appearances, its manner of appearing without allowing any reply.”
― Society of the Spectacle
― Society of the Spectacle
“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”
― The Society of the Spectacle
- From Martin Jenkins' Introduction”
― The Society of the Spectacle
“The spectacle is a permanent opium war designed to force people to equate goods with commodities and to equate satisfaction with a survival that expands according to its own laws. Consumable survival must constantly expand because it never ceases to include privation. If augmented survival never comes to a resolution, if there is no point where it might stop expanding this is because it is itself stuck in the realm of privation. It may gild poverty, but it cannot transcend it.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
Fernan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Fernan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
637 books
|
14 friends
361 books
|
55 friends
252 books
|
3,605 friends
158 books
|
20 friends
83 books
|
155 friends
148 books
|
18 friends
1 book
|
1 friend
0 books
|
3 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Fernan
Lists liked by Fernan
