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How to read “Society of the Spectacle” Without Breaking Things. As much.

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A quick guide to using English's S-V-O (Subject-Verb-Object) word order as a tool to unlock complex sentences, such as those

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Page 1: How to read Guy Debord without breaking things

How to read “Society of the

Spectacle”

How to read “Society of the

Spectacle”Without Breaking Things.

As much.Without Breaking Things.

As much.

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✦ “Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever.” --Section 3.

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SVO word order:

✦ SUBJECT: The noun or phrase that DOES the action

✦ VERB: The ACTION being done

✦ OBJECT: The noun or phrase the action is DONE TO.

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✦ “Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever.” --Section 3.

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“Images detached from

every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever.” --Section 3.

SUBJECT

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“Images detached from

every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever.” --Section 3.

SUBJECT

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✦ “Images detached from every aspect

of life merge into a

common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever.” --Section 3.

VERB

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✦ “Images detached from every aspect

of life merge into a common stream,

and the former unity of life is lost forever.” --Section 3.

OBJECT

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✦ SUBJECT: Images (that have detached from “life”)

✦ VERB: Merge Into

✦ OBJECT: A common Stream

✦ SO: Images detach from life then come together into a stream.

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So what?✦ IF images no longer stick to the real

world, but only stick to each other, then when we only see the world through them (i.e., TV, the web, and anything else we don’t see with our own eyes...)

✦ THEN this “common stream” doesn’t talk about the “real world” at all any more--only about itself. Well, so says Guy!

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To read Debord:

✦ Locate a clause--that is, an S-V-O.

✦ Chop it up.

✦ Spell it out in your own words.

✦ Think it over.

✦ Wash, rinse, repeat.