Thoughts on The Spectacle and Recuperation?
Added 2019-05-17 14:56:15 +0000 UTCI'm guessing you've both watched my most recent video on the Society of the Spectacle and Recuperation. Just wondered if you had any thoughts, feedback or ideas of what you think I should do next? All much appreciated!
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Hey Ben, thanks for joining us! I was about to drop you a quick message of thanks actually (as I do with everyone who's generous enough to sign up on here. Do you want to drop me a message with a bit more about your research and I can have a think about what might be most helpful?
Tom Nicholas
2019-09-29 16:11:45 +0000 UTCHey Tom, I am in the process of doing individual graduate research on Guy Debord with an architectural filter on the information. I want to include a few transcriptions of interviews with a few different people who are informed on this topic and might have an opinion that could open up a new branch of discussion. If this is possible I would love to get in touch and set something up. Thanks!
Ben Cyvas
2019-09-29 03:54:26 +0000 UTCReally glad you liked it! Yeah, I think it was a necessary pessimism but it's not the tone I usually like my videos to end on, haha! In the follow-up I'm planning on being a bit more forthcoming with opportunities for resistance etc to give it a bit of an uplift at the end at least!
Tom Nicholas
2019-05-23 10:00:23 +0000 UTCHey Tom! I told you this already, but I loved the video. I understand what you mean by saying it’d be pessimistic, and if I’m not mistaken you said at the end of video that it might have been a bit negative. But, I believe it’s a necessary negativity, if that makes sense. A lot of Debord’s ideas are new to me, and they are things I hadn’t thought of before. While at first it was a bit upsetting to realize how much our world has been “Spectacularized”, now I feel more empowered to try and subvert it, even if just personally. I have more thoughts and a question about this, but will post them in the Q&A post. Thanks!
Lucas T
2019-05-22 22:01:14 +0000 UTCPersonally, I really wish I'd managed to squeeze in some stuff on détournement (which Debord and the Situationists saw as a kind of opposite to recuperation where one subverts a piece of advertising or similar, think adbusters/culture jamming) as, when watching the video back during editing, I realised it was just a little bit pessimistic...
Tom Nicholas
2019-05-17 14:59:46 +0000 UTC
