The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord & Ken Knabb

Author:Guy Debord & Ken Knabb
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780939682065
Publisher: Bureau of Public Secrets
Published: 2014-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Spectacular Time

We have nothing of our own except time, which even the homeless can experience.

—Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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The time of production — commodified time — is an infinite accumulation of equivalent intervals. It is irreversible time made abstract, in which each segment need only demonstrate by the clock its purely quantitative equality with all the others. It has no reality apart from its exchangeability. Under the social reign of commodified time, “time is everything, man is nothing; he is at most the carcass of time” (The Poverty of Philosophy). This devalued time is the complete opposite of time as “terrain of human development.”

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