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The Spectacular Death of the Subject in Guy Debord's Philosophy and Georges Perec's Les Choses
2023
Overview
The ubiquity of the signs of the good(s) life that we devour incessantly has led to the complete \"falsification of social life,\"1 or a disquieting situation in which \"all social interaction is constituted through hyper-rituals which themselves no longer refer to anything other than themselves [...] the commercial and the real are one in the same\" (Debord, La société du spectacle 63, italics in original; Hancock and Gamer 177). According to Debord and Perec, the postmodern subject now dwells in a world of spectacle in which we are constantly bombarded by signs imploring us to obey the summons to consume in consumer republics.2 Given that there is no exit from this onslaught of image-based (hyper-) reality linked to the acquisition of objects laden with purely symbolic value accosting us from all sides in front of our television, smartphone, or tablet screens, Debord and Perec reach the disconcerting conclusion that post-truth metanarratives have proliferated themselves to such an alarming extent that they have effectively replaced commonplace reality. Since real life could not possibly live up to the chimerical standards of the grandiose fantasies that flicker across our screens, this erosion of the real has left behind a bitter trail of disappointment, dissatisfaction, and existential malaise. When it replaces it with the necessity of infinite economic development, it can only replace the satisfaction of the first summarily recognized human needs by an uninterrupted production ofpseudo-needs which come down to the sole pseudo-need for the maintenance of one's reign. The Imposition of Hyperreality and the Proliferation of Post-Truth, Consumerist Metanarratives Although the phenomenon of hyperreality tied to social control over the populace is not a novel problem,
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