Essays on Debord

Nowadays we live in the era of high developed technologies. Different types of technologies penetrated in every sphere of our lives. Moreover, we cannot imagine our life without it. “Most of the civilized world wouldn’t know what to do with themselves without technology” ( Technology information, 2008). New developments in technologies have completely changed the ways people live and work. Many researchers call the modern times as the Information Age, Digital Age or New Media Age. All these definitions underline the importance of technologies and information for the modern society all over the world. In this essay I would ...

The Flanuer

In order to understand what the flanuer culture encompassed one first needs to understand what flanuer is. According to Charles Baudelaire, the flanuer is a man who is so enthralled by the urban society/world that the external overpowers the internal, so fascinated with the on goings of others that he temporarily forgets his own self. The flanuer removes him form the on goings of thaw world as he/she strands astride the worlds hearts. There are two schools of thought with regards to the description of the flanuer culture. The first school of thought associates the flanuer culture with a ...

The case study reveals that there are a number of challenges faced by Tesla. These challenges rose up when the environmentalist came up with laws and regulations so as to limit the fuel emission from cars. Then technology chipped in which called out for making car models which are based on the latest form of innovative technologies in terms of fuel consumption. Many international car manufacturers have also joined the automobile industry including the companies from Korea, Japan, and China. Due to the increase in care manufacturing companies, the competition has also soared for Tesla. There were some questions ...

"Starship Troopers" is a military science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven produced in 1997. This film does not only focus on life in the future and new civilizations and realities of the 23rd century, but it is also centered around the darker side of the role of government and authority, disturbing social spaces, and total absence of choice for ordinary people. The film depicts life of people in the distant future, particularly in the 23rd century. "Earth, three hundred years into the future, is under the rule of the Federation world government. Multi- nationalism has finally become ...

Approximately 8 million healthcare workers in the U.S. are working in environments that place them at risk of exposure to hazardous drugs (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). The risk to healthcare workers increases yearly as new non-antineoplastic pharmaceuticals are added to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s alert list of hazardous drugs (Connor, MacKenzie, DeBord, Trout & O’Callaghan, 2014). The addition of new hazardous drugs requires continually updating of procedures to prevent an increasing diverse range of potential exposures (Connor, et al., 2014). The purpose of this paper is to examine the study of ...

Nowadays, technology and hyperreality are the essential parts of our everyday lives. Sometimes, it is hard to imagine the day without watching a film or playing a computer game. However, have we ever thought about the consequences of spending so much time living in hyperreality, adoring simulations? Firstly, I would like to clarify what do I understand by the Simulation, Spectacle and Hyperreality. These terms have close connection with each other, but they are quite different. In my opinion, simulation is the imitation of some actions in the real world. In some way, it is like the sign, when ...

Chapter 1 of The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy-Ernest Debord describes reality as an “immense accumulation of spectacles” where “everything that has been “directly lived” has become a “representation” (para). The concepts of separation and isolation were defined in relation to the process of production in an economic system The writer emphasizes that in the present society, the products generated through the work of individuals are very much separated from the workers and have in fact accumulated its own power. It is such power that has a great impact on the various aspects of a people’s existence.

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The Society of the Spectacle is a philosophy book authored by Guy Debord. The book contains as many as two hundred and twenty one theses divided over nine paragraphs. The Society of the Spectacle is defined by the many theses that the author espoused throughout the book. For instance, the changing relationship between mediated representation and direct experience in modern times sets the context for the first thesis. The author asserts all things that were directly lived previously have been turned into mere representations. This thesis shows the negative attitude and the crucial stance he held towards the developments ...

In legal parlance, divorce is the process of matrimony dissolution or termination that culminates in separation of fiancées. Reasons for divorce to take place are multiple, with marital breach resulting from infidelity, jealousy, financial instability and other contributing factors. Never a pleasant process, divorce does have consequences for both fiancées and their children, if born in wedlock. Children are virtually forced into watching their once loving parents battling each other during legal proceedings, court hearings, and custody fights over who will raise them and who will pay alimony, to say nothing of contractual demands, rising from clauses provided ...

According to Guy Debord, a spectacle is the main representation of our social life. It constitutes advertising, entertainment, etc. present in mass media, for the purposes of watching and listening to it. Because it is just a representation, meaning that the spectacle repeats itself many times and people get as much exposure to it as possible, the spectacle unavoidably becomes the reality. However, the spectacle naturally consists of many separate images that, in fact, are a worldview. Step by step, the worldview becomes, first, materialized and later - objective. I chose an excerpt from Society of the Spectacle due to some ...

The urbanization and globalization of our lives have changed the way we look at and feel about spaces; landscaping and man's mastery of our environment has allowed us to shape it according to our will. The introduction of technology has furthered this ability to create and change the way we interact with the world around us; GPS, Foursquare, Google Maps and other social networking and electronic media heavily shape how we move through a space and interact with it. My goal is to create a project that brings out the connections between technological advances and our movement through landscapes, linking the ...

The urbanization and globalization of our lives have changed the way we look at and feel about spaces; landscaping and man's mastery of our environment has allowed us to shape it according to our will. The introduction of technology has furthered this ability to create and change the way we interact with the world around us; GPS, Foursquare, Google Maps and other social networking and electronic media heavily shape how we move through a space and interact with it. My goal is to create a project that brings out the connections between technological advances and our movement through landscapes, linking the ...

The urbanization and globalization of our lives have changed the way we look at and feel about spaces; landscaping and man's mastery of our environment has allowed us to shape it according to our will. The introduction of technology has furthered this ability to create and change the way we interact with the world around us; GPS, Foursquare, Google Maps and other social networking and electronic media heavily shape how we move through a space and interact with it. My goal is to create a project that brings out the connections between technological advances and our movement through landscapes, linking the ...

Introduction

Parenthood is the state in which individual(s) transits to become a parent and as such his/her roles, status, values and needs in the society change. For an individual to qualify to become a parent they have to have a child and thus the man becomes a father while the woman becomes a mother. In parenthood, one can either be a single parent, which refers that he/she has been mandated to look after the kid alone due to unavoidable circumstances. In life, everybody is bound to pass through this stage. Being a parent is one of the difficult tasks and at the same time rewarding task ...