All except the "Hexbear is a community of" prompt on the screenshot is AI generated. I am scared of this technology.

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    The spectacle obliterates the boundaries between self and world by flooding the world with images of a self which is its own object. It also obliterates the boundary between seeing and being seen.

    The actual next passage in the book is

    The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

    So it's actually rewording the original work. Interesting...

    It's also following Debord's style of starting a lot of the theses with "the spectacle is..."

    • Yanqui_UXO [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      I punched in Heidegger before. It was really fucking something. People will be writing their dissertations this way.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I chose Debord because if he knew we were feeding his words to what is essentially the final form of the spectacle, he'd probably get really upset.