Marc Lavallée on Mon, 6 Nov 2017 13:53:34 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> Utopian Plagiarism / Society of the Spectacle


Debord compiled a list of citations and misappropriations that he
himself used in writing La Société du Spectacle, to help translators:
http://juralibertaire.over-blog.com/article-releve-des-citations-et-des-detournements-de-la-societe-du-spectacle-42307956.html

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Marc

On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 23:23:08 +1300 (NZDT)
lincoln dahlberg <l.j.dahlberg@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> is this your hack or who can i attribute?
> 
> 
> > On 03 November 2017 at 10:16 Ian Alan Paul <ianalanpaul@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >     The internet is not a collection of networks, but a social
> > relation among people, mediated by networks.
> > 
> >     ...
> > 
> >     The basically tautological character of the internet flows from
> > the simple fact that its means are simultaneously its ends.
> > 
> >     ...
> > 
> >     The internet subjugates living men to itself to the extent that
> > the economy has totally subjugated them.
> > 
> >     ...
> > 
> >     The internet is the existing order’s uninterrupted discourse
> > about itself, its laudatory monologue.
> > 
> >     ...
> > 
> >     The internet reunites the separate, but reunites it as separate.
> > 
> >     ...
> > 
> >     The internet is capital to such a degree of accumulation that
> > it becomes a network.
> > 
> >     ...
> > 
> >     The unreal unity proclaimed by the internet masks the class
> > division on which the real unity of the capitalist made of
> > production rests.
> > 
> >     ...
> > 
> >     The internet is ideology par excellence, because it exposes and
> > manifests in its fullness the essence of all ideological systems:
> > the impoverishment, servitude and negation of real life. 
> > 
> >     ...
> > 
> >     ad infinitum...
> > 
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