It seems to perfectly represent the mediation of life through spectacle. It highlights the absurdity of reality TV and places the viewer into states of complete confusion about what is reality vs. representation, thus turning passive consumption into a disorienting and uncomfortable experience. While doing so, it is constantly and self-awarely commodifying human relationships. The Fielder Method, where the actor purposefully becomes close to another person to better imitate them represents this perfectly, both in turning the other person into a spectacle for the purpose of Nathan's 'rehearsals' as well as by the actor turning themself into a spectacle for the viewer.

Are there any situationist texts that critique traditional literary and cinematic genres? The idea came up in a film class I took once summarizing the ideas of Solanas and Gettino in Argentina. Supposedly for them it was a colonialist issue but I haven't really found much elaboration on that in their actual writings. I was wondering if the Situationists ever tackled this. It seems the usual situationist techniques like détournement seem like a kind of breaking apart old media to express new ideas that Solanas and Gettinos films also reflect.

Well am 22 female, studied in all girls high school for all my life and now am in college and looking for a relationship since i have always been single. But i don’t why i couldn’t find myself one. I have been in talking stage for multiple of times. Currently am in a talking stage with an average looking guy with good sense of humour . We started off with flirting and now i cannot figure out when he is serious and when he is not. Now am addicted to talking to him but out of sudden he isn’t that interested anymore. Is it because he has sensed that i have become habitual to him.

i really hate it when im thinking far too deep between words that was literally for someone else.

I’m reading it in french so maybe translation is different but I’m having trouble understanding what debord means by spectacular vs spectaclist. He emphasises that the modern industrial societies are not spectacular but spectaclist. Does he mean by this that the society is more “observer” than “performer” or am I getting this all wrong?

Thanks for any help!

Comment your favorite break-up songs. Currently recovering from a break-up with my toxic situationship partner.

1. Fra Lippo Lippi - stiches and burn
2. Craig David - Don’t love you no more
3. Mariah Carey - I can make it through the rain
4. Jeremy Zucker - comethru

I feel like new situationist theory is gonna drop real soon. I don't want to speculate too hard before we see new observable phenomena in society caused by text-to-video because I'll probably be wrong. But I do feel like this marks a shift in the political economy behind the spectacle. The spectacle proliferated in the 20th century as the development of the material base of society created media on which moments can be pseudocyclically replayed. But it used to be that the spectacle was driven by the aggregate unconscious behavior of society. I made a post a while back about in the last decade, instead of you directly spectating, your path on the terrain of the spectacle has been managed for you by the algorithm. But I mean now, even the imagination of the spectacular images is going to be done you by machine. This is actually crazy. Could the same technology that the new spectacle is based on also be detourned by using new tactics to disrupt the spectacle? I don't know.

How do you deal with wanting to be attached to a human? I can deal with it but my way will be removing that person from my life, and when I do it, I can’t go back to the person (I could get the ekk or just not want them anymore) and I kinda wanna see how it plays out with this person.

Time separates us from the infinite renewal of the moment, which is life as any undisturbed child experiences it. There is no time other than the time to organize death to live. This organization is the time of production and the illusory compensation of consumption. The renewal of the moment disappears beneath the counting of the hours. Life dies and value takes its place. Money sets the value of life. Money sets life as a value. Money is the value instead of life. Time is money and money is eternity stolen from life.

Pour ceux qui comprennent le français : https://observatoiresituationniste.com/2023/12/29/le-coucher-de-soleil-ressemble-tant-a-laube/

Hey I've got some money lately for Christmas and I'm looking for buying new books. I'm interested in buying Vaneigem but it's kinda expensive. Would you recommend me to buy it ?

So I’ve been in a situationship with a guy for 6 months now,at first things were hush hush but then he started acting like he was boyfriend the longer this happened,I was still acting like we were just friends.He still acts like he’s my boyfriend but we never had any sort of discussion about it.Important detail:in the beginning of this HE said he didn’t want anything serious…I think he’s into me like that but idk I don’t wanna say something and look stupid