On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:
> > ...For instance, I've read Debord's essay on the Society of The > Spectacle (1967) > and I know it's the Bible for a lot of new situationist artists (and > angrily > critiques celebrity and other tokens of commodification) but I find Debord > ridiculously dated and even paranoid in his fixation on capitalism as the > great > evil. The alternatives are misty stone-age economics, as far as I can > figure > out. Yes, Debord's very gloomy account of human debasement at the hands of > capitalism may be true but when was it ever otherwise, with any economic > scheme? > > I think that ancient Sparta did not even use coins as a way of suppressing commerce and preventing it from dominating their society.
