If ya wanna get smart about spectacle and consumption, look to Antonio Gramsci. Or read some of Rosalind Williams' work regarding the emergence of the culture of consumption in the 19th C. As Talmeyr said in 1900, “People are duped. Seeking a pleasurable escape from the workaday world, they find it in a deceptive dream world which is no dream at all but a sales pitch in disguise.”
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If ya wanna get smart about spectacle and consumption, look to Antonio Gramsci. Or read some of Rosalind Williams' work regarding the emergence of the culture of consumption in the 19th C. As Talmeyr said in 1900, “People are duped. Seeking a pleasurable escape from the workaday world, they find it in a deceptive dream world which is no dream at all but a sales pitch in disguise.”
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