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    Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its Cultural Context.Andrea Wilson Nightingale - 2004 - Cambridge University Press.
    In fourth-century Greece, the debate over the nature of philosophy generated a novel claim: that the highest form of wisdom is theoria, the rational 'vision' of metaphysical truths. This 2004 book offers an original analysis of the construction of 'theoretical' philosophy in fourth-century Greece. In the effort to conceptualise and legitimise theoretical philosophy, the philosophers turned to a venerable cultural practice: theoria. In this practice, an individual journeyed abroad as an official witness of sacralized spectacles. This book examines the philosophic (...)
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    Spectacle Terror Lynching, Public Sovereignty, and Antiblack Genocide.Alfred Frankowski - 2019 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 33 (2):268-281.
    ABSTRACT The history of spectacle terror lynching remains one of the darkest and least explored political events in American history. In this article, I explore the aesthetic relation of this history to the formation of notions of public action and political assembly. I argue that the history of spectacle terror lynching establishes both a past and present form of public sovereignty. As such, I attempt to examine questions of what public action means with regard to a political context (...)
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    Spectacle, Surveillance, and the Ironies of Visual Politics in the Age of Autonomous Images.Mark Reinhardt - 2023 - Political Theory 51 (5):814-842.
    Considering formative twentieth-century theories in relation to contemporary technosocial developments, this article examines ideas of spectacle and surveillance as ways of approaching visual politics. I argue that the historically important relationship between the visual and political fields is now intensifying and mutating. First discussing Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, I show how his influential approach proves inadequate to the politics of image-saturated societies. I next show how critics of imperial and racial spectacles, from Michael Rogin to (...)
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  4. On Spectacle: Critique And System In Debord’s Work.Eurico Carvalho - 2015 - Aufklärung 2 (1):119-134.
    This paper aims to examine the nature of the situationist concept of spectacle, especially by separating it into its philosophical elements, in order to check the effectiveness, from a systematic point of view, of situationism’s radical critique. In doing so, the main focus of our attention will be Debord’s major theoretical work: Society of the Spectacle. In fact, the concept of spectacle, repeatedly evoked in other writings, has its most far-reaching version in that small but great book, (...)
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    From Spectacle to Deterritorialisation: Deleuze, Debord and the Politics of Found Footage Cinema.Claudio Celis Bueno - 2019 - Deleuze and Guattari Studies 13 (1):54-78.
    The aim of this article is to explore how the differences between Guy Debord and Gilles Deleuze delineate two different interpretations of the politics of found footage cinema. To do so, the notion of cinematic interval is crucial. While Debord's practice of détournement presupposes a Hegelian-inspired notion of interval that allows for self-awareness to be achieved, Deleuze puts forth a Bergsonian concept of interval that functions as a condition of possibility for creating an ‘image of movement in itself’. To explore (...)
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  6. Spectacles improved to perfection and approved of by the Royal Society.D. J. Bryden & D. L. Simms - 1993 - Annals of Science 50 (1):1-32.
    The letter sent by the Royal Society to the London optician, John Marshall, in 1694, commending his new method of grinding, has been reprinted, and referred to, in recent years. However, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the method itself, the letter and the circumstances in which it was written, nor the consequences for trade practices. The significance of the approval by the Royal Society of this innovation and the use of that approbation by John Marshall and other practitioners (...)
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    Public spectacle and scientific theory: William Robertson Smith and the reading of evolution in Victorian Scotland.David N. Livingstone - 2004 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35 (1):1-29.
    This paper examines the reaction of Victorian Presbyterian culture to the theory of evolution in late nineteenth century Scotland. Focusing on the role played by the Free Church theologian, biblical critic and anthropological theorist, William Robertson Smith, it argues that, compared with Smith’s radical scholarship, evolutionary theories did little to disturb the Scottish Calvinist mind-set. After surveying the attitudes to evolution among a range of theological leaders, the paper examines Smith’s fundamentally threatening proposals and the circumstances that led to the (...)
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    Taking Spectacle Seriously: Wildlife Film and the Legacy of Natural History Display.Eleanor Louson - 2018 - Science in Context 31 (1):15-38.
    ArgumentI argue through an analysis of spectacle that the relationship between wildlife documentary films’ entertainment and educational mandates is complex and co-constitutive. Accuracy-based criticism of wildlife films reveals assumptions of a deficit model of science communication and positions spectacle as an external commercial pressure influencing the genre. Using thePlanet Earth(2006) series as a case study, I describe spectacle's prominence within the recent blue-chip renaissance in wildlife film, resulting from technological innovations and twenty-first-century consumer and broadcast market contexts. (...)
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    From Spectacle to Scene: A Pragmatist Approach to Performing Live.Barbara Formis - 2025 - Philosophies 10 (1):25.
    Drawing from the philosophies of pragmatism and somaesthetics, as developed by Richard Shusterman, this inquiry argues that performance holds a unique ontological status, one that emphasizes participation, shared meaning making, and the aesthetic qualities of ordinary, lived experience. As a philosopher trained as a dancer, I share some insights from my own experience as a performer offering a first-person aesthetic experience as a tool for conceptual inquiry. This experience allows the inquiry to explore the distinction between “scene” and “spectacle”, (...)
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    Just Spectacles.Jay Black - 2008 - Semiotics:230-244.
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  11. Spectacles & predicaments: essays in social theory.Ernest Gellner - 1979 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
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    Spectacles of social activism: pandemic and politicking in the age of digital media.Helen-Mary Cawood - 2024 - South African Journal of Philosophy 43 (4):323-337.
    The global COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2020 coincided with another incident that made global news, namely the release of the video of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in the United States. While the novelty of the pandemic wore off relatively quickly when things “went back to normal”, the death of George Floyd inspired a radical global movement relating to the treatment of black people (by both police and civilians) worldwide, namely the “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) movement. (...)
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    The Body Politic: Bodily Spectacle and Democratic Agency.Michael Feola - 2018 - Political Theory 46 (2):197-217.
    This essay engages an undertheorized form of democratic agency: the embodied spectacle that characterizes a strain of activist politics. Where an existing literature addresses “the spectacle” as a tactic of power, it does not do justice to how marginal groups have used radical bodily acts in order to intervene within the image-world of democratic politics (e.g., hunger strikes, die-ins, self-immolation). The essay argues that such performances represent a standing challenge to democratic theory and demand a more richly sensuous (...)
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    Film Spectacle and Cinematic Culture.Dario Vuger - 2020 - Filozofska Istrazivanja 40 (3):477-498.
    In this paper, the author establishes and defends the thesis that the 1980s horror film production acts as a paradigm of the spectacle, especially in terms of the system of reduction of immediate life to image related mediations and phenomena. Thus, three disparate elements are now connected in a conceptual framework by which author supposes one must judge the media theory and media at large at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. The three (...)
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    The Spectacle de la Nature in Eighteenth-Century Spain: From French Households to Spanish Workshops.Elena Serrano - 2012 - Annals of Science 69 (2):257-282.
    Summary This paper analyzes the Spanish appropriation of one of the great French eighteenth-century best-sellers, the Spectacle de la Nature (1732--1750) by the abbé Antoine Nöel Pluche. In eight volumes, the abbé discussed current issues in natural philosophy, such as Newtonianism, the origin of fossils, artisan techniques, natural history, machines, gardening or insect-collection in a polite-conversation format. It was translated into English (1735), Dutch (1737), Italian (1737), German (1746) and Spanish (1753). But the four Spanish editions were very different (...)
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    No community without spectacle: A comment on olwig's landscape, nature, and the body politic.Jonathan M. Smith - 2003 - Philosophy and Geography 6 (2):263 – 265.
    (2003). No community without spectacle: A comment on Olwig's Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic. Philosophy & Geography: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 263-265. doi: 10.1080/1090377032000114705.
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    Between Spectacle and Science: Margaret Murray and the Tomb of the Two Brothers.Kathleen L. Sheppard - 2012 - Science in Context 25 (4):525-549.
    ArgumentThis article explores the history of mummy unwrappings in the West, culminating in Margaret Murray's public unrolling of two mummies in Manchester in 1908. Mummy unwrappings as a practice have shifted often between public spectacles which displayed and objectified exotic artifacts, and scientific investigations which sought to reveal medical and historical information about ancient life. Although others have looked at Murray's work in the context of the history of mummy studies, I argue that her work should be viewed culturally as (...)
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  18. Media Spectacle and the Crisis of the U.S. Electoral System in Election 2000.Douglas Kellner - unknown
    The 2000 U.S. presidential election was one of the most bizarre and fateful in American history. Described in books as a “deadlock,” “thriller,” “the perfect tie,” and even “Grand Theft 2000,” studies of the election have dissected its anomalies and scandals and have attempted to describe and explain what actually happened.1 In this study, I will analyze how the turn toward media politics and spectacle in U.S. political campaigns and the curious and arguably archaic system of proportional voting in (...)
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  19. Barbarous Spectacle and General Massacre: A Defence of Gory Fictions.Ian Stoner - 2020 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (4):511-527.
    Many people suspect it is morally wrong to watch the graphically violent horror films colloquially known as gorefests. A prominent argument vindicating this suspicion is the Argument from Reactive Attitudes (ARA). The ARA holds that we have a duty to maintain a well-functioning moral psychology, and watching gorefests violates that duty by threatening damage to our appropriate reactive attitudes. But I argue that the ARA is probably unsound. Depictions of suffering and death in other genres typically do no damage to (...)
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    Spectacles and Predicaments: Essays in Social Theory.Brian Fay - 1979 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 44 (4):748-749.
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    The Spectacle of Guns and Hope.Rafael Marques de Morais - 2019 - Kronos 45 (1):84-88.
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    The Spectacles of Pain and Their Contemporary Forms of Representation.Saulius Geniusas - 2015 - Janus Head 14 (2):87-112.
    This essay offers a phenomenological interpretation of symbolic violence. According to my thesis, the craving for violent imagery derives from the audience’s unconscious desire to liberate itself from pain’s destructive effects. I argue that this unrealizable project of liberation can take three forms: it can aim to express the inexpressible, escape the inescapable, or transfer the non-transferrable. I further contend that the audience’s approach to contemporary representations of violence is paradoxical: its irresistible craving for pain’s virtual manifestations is no greater (...)
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    Word — Spectacle — Mask.Garth Gillan - 1968 - Philosophy Today 12 (2):130.
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    Fête, spectacle, cérémonie : Des jeux de cadres.Albert Piette - 2005 - Hermes 43:39.
    Cet article présente une grille théorique qui associe les grandes représentations rituelles contemporaines à un jeu de cadres mêlant le sérieux et le jeu et pouvant se déployer sous des formes différentes : spectacle, fête, compétition, cérémonie. Quelques exemples, comme les voyages du pape, les fêtes folkloriques, les matches de football et l'expérience de la convivialité, tentent d'illustrer la fécondité possible de cette analyse.This paper presents a theoretical framework that combines great contemporary ritual performances in a frameset combining seriousness (...)
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  25. Spectacles and Predicaments. E. Gellner - 1982 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 33 (1):104-111.
     
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    The Spectacle of Modernity: Walter Benjamin and a Critique of Culture (Kulturkritik).Jaeho Kang - 2011 - Constellations 18 (1):74-90.
  27. Spectacles Behind the Eyes.Matthew Lund & Norwood Russell Hanson - 1969 - In Norwood Russell Hanson, Perception and Discovery: An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry. Cham: Springer Verlag.
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    Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture - by Nadja Durbach.Sadiah Qureshi - 2011 - Centaurus 53 (3):237-238.
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    Spectacles and Predicaments. [REVIEW]Joseph G. Grassi - 1983 - Review of Metaphysics 36 (3):714-715.
    In these essays grouped under the title Spectacles and Predicaments Gellner is doing in social theory what Luigi Pirandello did on the stage, namely, make us involved in the political predicaments of life rather than be a mere observer of the spectacle of politics. The book is divided into three parts: part one is concerned with philosophers and their philosophies by which we interpret humanity; part two deals with the nature of knowledge and its implications; and part three concerns (...)
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  30. Othering the Other: The Spectacle of Katrina for our Racial Entertainment Pleasure.Mariana Ortega - 2009
    The following essay examines visual representations of hurricane Katrina in popular media in order to show how photography continues to be enlisted in the production of the racial spectacle, the transformation of the plight of people of color into entertainment. The essay also analyzes how such a use of the visual serves to solidify the understanding of people of color by way of a black-white binary that does not do justice to current U.S. demographics. The essay provides a glimpse (...)
     
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  31. The spectacle of democracy.Vidhu Verma - 2015 - Global Discourses (July).
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    Modern spectacle and American feminism’s disappointing daughters: Writing fantasy echoes in The Portrait of a Lady.Kimberly Lamm - 2014 - Feminist Theory 15 (2):179-196.
    Joan Scott’s ‘fantasy echo’ is deployed to analyse the trope of the mother/daughter relationship in contemporary laments about feminism’s failures, exemplified by Susan Faludi’s ‘American Electra: Feminism’s Ritual Matricide’ (2010). I demonstrate that Faludi’s primary argument – that young feminists do not respect the generations that precede them and therefore halt feminist progress – unreflectively relies upon a feminist maternal fantasy and ignores the prominent role spectacle culture plays in the circumscription of contemporary feminism. Building upon Scott’s attention to (...)
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    The Society of the Spectacle.Donald Nicholson-Smith (ed.) - 1994 - Zone Books.
    For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture. At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s. Today, Debord's work continues to be in the (...)
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    Rupturing the Spectacle: On Certain Paradoxes of Film Image.Adrian Pelc - 2020 - Filozofska Istrazivanja 40 (3):457-476.
    In this paper, confronted are two radical currents of thought about the film image. In a first step, demonstrated is how some Marxist theorists define the film image as ontologically grounded in alienation and the destruction of non-mediated presence due to its technical origin, as well as its effects. In a second step, I try to show how André Bazin, influenced by phenomenology and taking up identical premises as the Marxists, came to diametrically opposite conclusions: it isn’t but the film (...)
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    The Spectacle of Data: A Century of Fairs, Fiches, and Fantasies.Shannon Mattern - 2020 - Theory, Culture and Society 37 (7-8):133-155.
    Alongside the robots, rockets, kitchen appliances, and other technical wonders displayed at the great expositions and world’s fairs of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, visitors frequently found deceptively staid demonstrations of banal bureaucratic tools: cards, fiches, and files. Yet these technologies of information management were aestheticized and presented as integral to the generation and pursuit of the fairs’ ambitious ‘world projects’: global networks, universal intelligences, efficient cities, colonized galaxies. The small, moving parts of information functioned as critical tools for city- (...)
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    Democracy and the spectacle.Chiara Bottici - 2015 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 41 (3):235-248.
    Rousseau maintains that the spectacle isolates us at the very same moment when it brings us together. This article argues that this striking remark must be understood within the more general framework of a critique of the spectacular nature of modern society. But if the spectacle is not simply an occasional form of entertainment, but a social relationship that pervades modern society as a whole, how can we escape from it? Rousseau’s homeopathic strategy, according to which we should (...)
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    The Rivalry of Spectacle: A Debordian-Lacanian Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Culture.Guanjun Wu - 2020 - Critical Inquiry 46 (3):627-645.
    In 1967 Guy Debord published the pamphlet-sized The Society of the Spectacle, a book written in the form of a collection of short theses. Debord was criticized for inventing the “spectacle” out of thin air by thinkers of his time such as Michel Foucault. We can, however, detect salient manifestations of the Debordian spectacular society in China of the 2010s. This paper demonstrates a deep and pervasive trend of spectacularization in China by analyzing (a) Taobao as a desire-creating (...)
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    (1 other version)Environnements immersifs : spectacle, avatars et corps virtuel, entre addiction et dialectique sociales.Philippe Bonfils - 2012 - Hermès: La Revue Cognition, communication, politique 62 (1):, [ p.].
    Les mondes virtuels sont issus des MMORPG, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games qui sont eux-mêmes issus du monde du jeu vidéo. À ce titre, il existe une filiation « ludique » entre ces différents dispositifs. Les travaux de Steinkuehler suggèrent que les mécanismes de l’apprentissage générés par les jeux issus des mondes virtuels dépendent « certes de la nature du jeu mais aussi des pratiques sociales qu’ils engendrent ». Dans cette continuité, nous avons démontré dans nos travaux que ces environnements (...)
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    Spectacles and Predicaments.Maria T. Wolf - 1981 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 28:353-355.
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    Plato and the spectacle of laughter.Michael Naas - 2016 - Angelaki 21 (3):13-26.
    This essay examines the critical role played by comedy and laughter in Plato. It begins by taking seriously Plato's critique of comedy and his concerns about the negative effects of laughter in dialogues such as Republic and Laws. It then shows how Plato, rather than simply rejecting comedy and censuring laughter, attempts to put these into the service of philosophy by rethinking them in philosophical terms. Accordingly, the laughable or the ridiculous is understood not just in relation to the ugly (...)
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    Making a spectacle of herself: Reading community mental health nursing assessments.Annette Street - 1994 - Nursing Inquiry 1 (1):31-37.
    The metaphor of mapping is used in this paper to examine the discursive construction of women whose nudity in public places (making a spectacle of herself) provides dilemmas for community mental health nurses required to make assessments of these women's ability to function in die community. Excerpts from stories provided by die nurses are used to demonstrate the complexity of die decision‐making processes and the limits to die choices they perceive they can make.
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    Spectacle as replacement to identity: Response to Cushman (2023).David M. Goodman - 2024 - Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 44 (2):107-110.
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  43. Spectacles from Hades. On Plato's myths and allegories in the Republic.Pierre Destrée - 2012 - In Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez, Plato and myth: studies on the use and status of Platonic myths. Boston: Brill.
  44. THE SPECTACLE OF REFLECTION: ON DREAMS, NEURAL NETWORKS AND THE VISUAL NATURE OF THOUGHT.Magdalena Szalewicz - manuscript
    The article considers the problem of images and the role they play in our reflection turning to evidence provided by two seemingly very distant theories of mind together with two sorts of corresponding visions: dreams as analyzed by Freud who claimed that they are pictures of our thoughts, and their mechanical counterparts produced by neural networks designed for object recognition and classification. Freud’s theory of dreams has largely been ignored by philosophers interested in cognition, most of whom focused solely on (...)
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    The Spectacle of the Child Woman: Troubling Girls and the Science of Early Puberty.Carla Rice - 2018 - Feminist Studies 44 (3):535-566.
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    Natural Philosophy and Public Spectacle in the Eighteenth Century.Simon Schaffer - 1983 - History of Science 21 (1):1-43.
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    Spectacle and Evidence in "Samson Agonistes".Stanley Fish - 1989 - Critical Inquiry 15 (3):556-586.
    When the chorus at the end of Samson Agonistes declares that “all is best,” what it means is that the best of all possible things, the thing everyone in the play most desires, has finally happened: Samson is dead. This is, of course, not quite fair. What the chorus most wants is that things once more be as they were, and its moment of highest joy in the play involves the speculation that a revived Hebrew hero may “now be dealing (...)
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    Education as Spectacle.Trevor Thwaites - 2015 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 47 (9):904-917.
    Global economic and advanced capitalist agendas have taken on ideological dimensions that are flat, precise and which assert ‘undeniable’ facts. These agendas are gradually shaping a society and its education based on consumerism and a global economic order which is ‘not accidentally or superficially spectacular, it is fundamentally spectaclist. In the spectacle … goals are nothing, development is everything. The spectacle aims at nothing other than itself’. In this paper, I argue, in line with Debord, that teachers’ work (...)
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    Spectacles and Sociability: Rousseau's Response in His Letter to d'Alembert to Montesquieu's Treatment of the Theatre and of French and English Society.Vickie Sullivan & Katherine Balch - 2015 - History of European Ideas 41 (3):357-374.
    SummaryScholars have pointed to Montesquieu's influence on Rousseau's work generally. Other scholars, who focus more intently on the Letter to d'Alembert, discern a crucial but limited influence of Montesquieu in two of Rousseau's teachings there: first, that some practices, including the theatre, can be appropriate and even wholesome for some societies, while noxious for others; and second, that mores are important in determining what types of laws and institutions a given people can tolerate and maintain. Careful consideration of Rousseau's Letter (...)
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  50. Symposium: The spectacle of violence: Homophobia, gender, and knowledge: The book at a glance.Gail Mason - 2006 - Hypatia 21 (2):174-206.
    Violence is a spectacle. Not because it is simply something that we observe but, more fundamentally, because it is a mechanism through which we observe and define other things. Violence has the capacity to shape the ways that we see, and thereby come to know, these things. In other words, violence is more than a practice that acts upon the bodies of individual subjects to inflict harm and injury. It is, metaphorically speaking, also a way of looking at these (...)
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