The Hologram Borged The Situationists
Nov. 17th, 2011 12:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nebris"The appellation "situationist" refers to one who engages in the construction of "situations" or specifically a member of the Situationist International. In adjectival form, the term means relating to the theory or practical activity of constructing "situations." Situationist theorist Guy Debord defines the term "situation" as "a moment of life concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a game of events." According to Debord, the Situationist International is so named because the construction of situations is the central idea of their theory, a process he describes as "the concrete construction of momentary ambiances of life and their transformation into a superior passional quality." In other words, any method of making one or more individuals critically analyze their everyday life, and to recognize and pursue their true desires in their lives. The experimental direction of situationist activity consists of setting up temporary environments that are favorable to the fulfillment of such desires.
The Situationist International strongly resisted use of the term "Situationism," which Debord called a "meaningless term . . . [t]here is no such thing as situationism, which would mean a doctrine for interpreting existing conditions." Situationists considered themselves highly opposed to all ideology, and the suffix "-ism" would to them improperly classify their body of theory as an ideology. In The Society of the Spectacle, Debord asserted ideology is "the abstract will to universality and the illusion thereof," which is "legitimated in modern society by universal abstraction and by the effective dictatorship of illusion."
The concept of the "situation" may originate in Sartre's concept of a Theatre of Situations. What Sartre calls a situation in a theatrical play, is what breaks the spectator's passivity towards the spectacle." ..from the Situationist International Wiki
~What leaped out at me is the phrase "to recognize and pursue their true desires". The brutal irony here is that mirrors the goal of The Hologram, aka Modern Corporate Marketing Culture. "We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed...Man's desires must overshadow his needs." ~Paul Mazer, Lehman Bros ca 1930's
And brings to my mind what I said here; "Liberal Humanism had once been a vital force and had changed human affairs for the better. But it inevitably fell victim to the Cult of The Individual and then fractured into ideological factionalism, individual narcissism and intellectual decadence. Its absolute rejection of Hierarchy doomed it to impotence." Her Prophet Explains: Addendum C [The Individual and The Hive]
The Situationist International strongly resisted use of the term "Situationism," which Debord called a "meaningless term . . . [t]here is no such thing as situationism, which would mean a doctrine for interpreting existing conditions." Situationists considered themselves highly opposed to all ideology, and the suffix "-ism" would to them improperly classify their body of theory as an ideology. In The Society of the Spectacle, Debord asserted ideology is "the abstract will to universality and the illusion thereof," which is "legitimated in modern society by universal abstraction and by the effective dictatorship of illusion."
The concept of the "situation" may originate in Sartre's concept of a Theatre of Situations. What Sartre calls a situation in a theatrical play, is what breaks the spectator's passivity towards the spectacle." ..from the Situationist International Wiki
~What leaped out at me is the phrase "to recognize and pursue their true desires". The brutal irony here is that mirrors the goal of The Hologram, aka Modern Corporate Marketing Culture. "We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed...Man's desires must overshadow his needs." ~Paul Mazer, Lehman Bros ca 1930's
And brings to my mind what I said here; "Liberal Humanism had once been a vital force and had changed human affairs for the better. But it inevitably fell victim to the Cult of The Individual and then fractured into ideological factionalism, individual narcissism and intellectual decadence. Its absolute rejection of Hierarchy doomed it to impotence." Her Prophet Explains: Addendum C [The Individual and The Hive]
