This paper is the textual component of a dialogic, performative, multi-media lecture that rereads Guy Debord’s, The Society of the Spectacle (1967) with reference to the global Occupy movement, and the role social media, and the proliferation of digital images play in the facilitation and hindrance of this recent form of political activism. It explicitly addresses the connections between global capitalism, public space and digital technology by responding to selective quotations from Debord’s book in creative and anecdotal registers.
History
Pagination
106 - 118
Location
Melbourne, Vic.
Open access
Yes
Start date
2012-06-22
End date
2012-06-23
ISBN-13
9780980718683
Language
eng
Notes
Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.