Plato’s Allegory of the cave; Society of the spectacle
‘Picture human beings as thought they were in an underground cave-like dwelling. They are in bonds… and see nothing except the shadows cast by a fire on the wall of the cave… they are like us’.
The current society that we are living in has already been widely manufactured; commodity and the media have already colonies our social life. People choose not to understand the real world, the remaining become imbedded and gaze upon he spectacle. As a result we got so mesmerize by the beauty of the object itself, that we lost our truth identity.
Plato divided the world into two categories; the world of the ideals and the world of phenomenal. The world of the ideals can be refer as the existences …show more content…
‘The spectacle is thus a specialized activity which speaks for all the others. It is the diplomatic representation of hierarchic society to itself, where all other expression is banned”.
Spectacle is a performance or display which one could understand of a way of seeing a things or how things works through images. It is hardly for us to separate the different between spectacles and ideals.
“The spectacle cannot be understood as an abuse of the world of vision, as a product of the techniques of mass dissemination of images. It is rather Weltanschauung, which has become actual, materially translated. IT is a world of vision which has become objectified, Guy Debord the society of the spectacle page 1.”
The spectacle symbolized the dominant of the modern life, it is the affirmation of the choices which already been made. It could also be understood as a false reality which opposed to the reality. In spectacle not just symbolized the modern life but also the world. The dominator is the governor of the images, it is an image that implanted into our existing life that which it would affect our original life and often we are not fully aware of
‘Picture human beings as thought they were in an underground cave-like dwelling. They are in bonds… and see nothing except the shadows cast by a fire on the wall of the cave… they are like us’.
The current society that we are living in has already been widely manufactured; commodity and the media have already colonies our social life. People choose not to understand the real world, the remaining become imbedded and gaze upon he spectacle. As a result we got so mesmerize by the beauty of the object itself, that we lost our truth identity.
Plato divided the world into two categories; the world of the ideals and the world of phenomenal. The world of the ideals can be refer as the existences …show more content…
‘The spectacle is thus a specialized activity which speaks for all the others. It is the diplomatic representation of hierarchic society to itself, where all other expression is banned”.
Spectacle is a performance or display which one could understand of a way of seeing a things or how things works through images. It is hardly for us to separate the different between spectacles and ideals.
“The spectacle cannot be understood as an abuse of the world of vision, as a product of the techniques of mass dissemination of images. It is rather Weltanschauung, which has become actual, materially translated. IT is a world of vision which has become objectified, Guy Debord the society of the spectacle page 1.”
The spectacle symbolized the dominant of the modern life, it is the affirmation of the choices which already been made. It could also be understood as a false reality which opposed to the reality. In spectacle not just symbolized the modern life but also the world. The dominator is the governor of the images, it is an image that implanted into our existing life that which it would affect our original life and often we are not fully aware of