Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the
Spectacle
By Steven Best and Douglas Kellner
Kellner homepage: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/kellner.html
Curriculum Vitae: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/DK97CV.htm
Best homepage: http://www.utep.edu/philos/best.htm
"But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing
signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the
essence, ... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to
be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that
the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of
sacredness," Ludwig Feuerbach.
"There is no doubt for aynone who examines the question coldly that those
who really want to shake an established society must formulate a theory which
fundamentally explains this society, or which at least quite seems to give a
satisfactory explantion," Guy Debord
