Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Apr 26, 2018
The latest #Kanye Twitter meltdown seems to support the thesis that #celebrity has become a postmodern form of human sacrifice.
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"The agent of the #spectacle placed on stage as a #star is the opposite of the individual, the enemy of the individual in himself as well as in others. Passing into the spectacle as a model for identification, the agent renounces all autonomous qualities in order to identify himself with the general law of obedience to the course of things."

#GuyDebord, #TheSocietyOfTheSpectacle #kanye #celebrity

Apr 26, 2018 at 2:59pmWeb
Show threadAntanicusApr 26, 2018
@mattcropp such a fundamental, overlooked book! It should be read aloud at street corners!
Show threadMatt Cropp 🌲🌲Apr 26, 2018
@Antanicus Kinda tempted to make a twitter bot that sends this quote to a randomly selected celebrity twice a day: "[T]hose ‘famous for being famous’ hold out the spectacular promise of the complete erosion of an autonomously lived life in return for an apotheosis as an image."