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The spectacle is capital to such a degree of accumulation that it becomes an image. |
The more his life is now his product, the more lie is separated from his life. |
and thus finds himself ever more separated from his world. |
Separated from his product, man himself produces all the details of his world with ever increasing power, |
What grows with the economy in motion for itself can only be the very alienation which was at its origin. |
Economic expansion is mainly the expansion of this specific industrial production. |
The spectacle within society corresponds to a concrete manufacture of alienation. |
The very powers which escaped us show themselves to us in all their force. |
The spectacle is the map of this new world, a map which exactly covers its territory. |
All the time and space of his world become foreign to him with the accumulation of his alienated products. |
The success of this production, its abundance, returns to the producer as an abundance of dispossession. |
The worker does not produce himself; he produces an independent power. |
This is why the spectator feels at home nowhere, because the spectacle is everywhere. |
of another who represents them to him. |
The externality of the spectacle in relation to the active man appears in the fact that his own gestures are no longer his but those |
the more he accepts recognizing himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and his own desires. |
in the following way: the more he contemplates the less he lives; |
The alienation of the spectator to the profit of the contemplated object (which is the result of his own unconscious activity) is expressed |
The spectacle reunites the separate, but reunites it as separate. |
What binds the spectators together is no more than an irreversible relation at the very center which maintains their isolation. |
