cliff notes?
i don't know how i escaped
guy debord's the society of the spectacle
in all my media studies classes,
but since i've felt a little lost
in the spectacle myself lately
i picked it up
and i am lost in it.
i grasp at the simplest
statements. then they run on
and i realize that this man
is using words in that 60s
way that people with ideas
got to use words which
was sitting down to write
your your philosophy of
how it all works, your theory,
and just making your words
mean what what you mean,
a personal vocabulary.
this becomes nettlesome
for the rest of us when you
publish it. what does he mean
by "global" and "above"
and "life lived"? i thought,
what i need to understand
this book is a book group. no.
but a very serious book group,
with one person who knows
all about the book and things
related to the book and can
help the rest of us discuss and
understand it. so like a college
class? shit. for now i'm going
to just kind of read the words
and let them flow through
my brain and see
what catches.
posted by self_invasion | 1:00 PM
1 Comments:
What a coincidence. I just heard about The Society of Spectacle and ordered it from Amazon. Thre is a lot to learn about Media Studies for all of us. I look forward to reading it even more now that I have read your comments.
Sorry to hear about your grandfather. Your piece about him and book binding is beautiful and helps me understand where your love of libraries and repairing books comes from.
We miss you at tea time.
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