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Intellectuals in the Society of Spectacle (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Intellectuals in the Society of Spectacle (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book reveals the sense in which our postmodern societies are
characterized by the obscene absence of the intellectual. The
modern intellectual--who had once been associated with humanism and
enlightenment-has in our day been replaced by media stars, talking
heads, and technical experts. At issue is the ongoing crisis of
democracy, under the aegis of the societe du spectacle and its vast
networks of politically-induced idiocy, industrially-produced
biocide, and militarily-provoked genocide. Spectacle fills the
resulting moral and intellectual vacuum with electronic
technologies of control, punishment, and destruction. This
postmodern tyranny reduces intelligence to mechanistic, positivist,
and grammatological models of inquiry, while increasing the
segmentation, fragmentation, and dissolution of human existence.
The apotheosis of the spectacle explains the intellectual void that
lies at the heart of our postmodern decadence; it also accounts for
the need to recuperate the humanist values of enlightenment
promoted by the modern intellectual tradition.
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