for - definition - the spectacle - Situationist International - adjacency - the spectacle - manufacturing consent

definition - the spectacle - Sittuationist International - A unified critique offered by the Situationist International of advanced capitalism - The critique was concerned with the insidious use of mass media and entertainment to subvert individual expression through lived experience by - substituting it with mass media images as proxies to directly lived experiences - which leads to mass consumption of commodities produced by advanced captalism - creates far-reaching passive second-hand alienation that harms both the individual and society

adjacency - between - the spectacle - manufacturing consent - adjacency relationship - The spectacle is closely related to Noam Chomsky's work on manufacturing consent