Abstract

Keywords: situationism, resistance, Occupy, Super 8, Žižek, digital media

This dialogue is the text-based component of an evolving performative multi-media lecture. By rereading Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, in relation to the global Occupy movement and the rise of social media, we ask: in what ways does the proliferation of digital imagery enable and limit this recent form of political activism? By subjectively responding to selective quotations from Debord’s writing, we link the triumvirate of global capitalism, public space and digital technology, producing commentary on the displacement imposed by contemporary ‘spectacular’ technologies, the networked ‘technical image’ and the politics of public space.

• Glenn D’Cruz, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
• Dirk de Bruyn, Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

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