Readers will encounter certain decoys, like the very hallmark of the era ( 1990: 1-2). Having, then, to take account of readers who are both attentive and diversely influential, I obviously cannot speak with complete freedom… Some elements will be intentionally omitted and the plan will have to remain rather unclear. In his book Comments on the Society of the Spectacle Debord suggests that: These Comments are sure to be welcomed by fifty or sixty people… It must also be borne in mind that a good half of this interested elite will consist of people who devote themselves to maintaining the spectacular system of domination, and the other half of people who persist in doing quite the opposite. In this article, therefore, I make the integrated spectacle my central focus of attention. This notion of an integrated spectacle, developed in Debord’s later oeuvre, has often received less attention than the concept of spectacle outlined in his earlier writings. In the 1980s Debord put forward the idea that modern capitalist society had now become an ‘integrated spectacle’. Debord divided the spectacle into two forms, the diffuse and the concentrated. In the 1960s Guy Debord argued that modern capitalism had become a society of the spectacle. The emergence of the so-called ‘anti-globalization’ movement saw a renewed interest, amongst some associated with this movement, in the thought of the Situationists.
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