Annual Editions: Computers in Society 04/05

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Summary: Society of the Spectacular
Review: The economic system founded on isolation is a circular production of isolation. The technology is based on isolation, and the technical process isolates in turn. All goods selected by the spectacular system are also its weapons for a constant reinforcement of the conditions of isolation of "lonely crowds". The spectacle constantly rediscovers its own assumptions more concretely.

The alienation of the spectacular to the profit of the contemplated object is expressed in the following way: the more he contemplates, the less he lives; the more he accepts recognizing himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and his own desires.