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For the agora, the general community, has gone, along with communities restricted to intermediary bodies or to independent institutions, to salons or cafés, or to workers in a single company. There is no place left where people can discuss the realities which concern them, because they can never lastingly free themselves from the crushing presence of media discourse and of the various forces organised to relay it.
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle §7

Any rebellion against the spectacle occurs at the level of the totality, because—even if it is confined to a single neighbourhood, such as Watts—it is a human protest against an inhuman life; because it begins at the level of the real single individual, and because community, from which the individual in revolt is separated, is the true social nature of man, true human nature: the positive transcendence of the spectacle.
Guy Debord, La planète malade

Community, from which the rebelling individual is separated, is the true social nature of man, human nature: the positive supersession of the spectacle.
Internationale situationniste #10

2025