Quotes About Spectacle

a spectacle of imbecility only to be equalled by himself.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

Gamers] want to be swept up in the moment of play, to be, for the most part, in a flow state, and not be halted to think deeply about the next thing they must accomplish. Similarly, casual gamers prize lean back games that allow them to while away some time in an interesting way, with a degree of visual spectacle and a continuing dopamine drip of nicely times rewards...

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle's estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual's gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity

The reigning economic system is a vicious circle of isolation. Its technologies are based on isolation, and they contribute to that same isolation. From automobiles to television, the goods that the spectacular system chooses to produce also serve it as weapons for constantly reinforcing the conditions that engender "lonely crowds.

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.

The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.

The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterised by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal, integration of state and economy, generalised secrecy, unanswerable lies, and eternal present . . . — The Society of the Spectacle

And then a rocket sprang and bang shot blind and O! then the Roman candle burst and it was like a sigh of O! and everyone cried O!O! in raptures and it gushed out of it a stream of rain gold hair threads and they shed and ah! they were all greeny dewy stars falling with golden, O so lively! O so soft, sweet, soft!

A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars.

It would have diverted if ever seen the shuddersome spectacle of this semidemented zany amid the inspissated grime of his glaucous den making believe to read his usylessly unreadable Blue Book of Eccles, édition de ténèbres, (even yet sighs the Most Different, Dr. Poindejenk, authorised bowdler and censor

said, 'Good show.

They should forget about tradition and start doing things for the fans, especially women. Have lights flash after a basket. Have uniforms designed by Dior.

Football has this ability to unite and create something more than just a spectacle as a sport.

'Baahubali' has done to Indian cinema what 'Star Wars' has done to America.

This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.

I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

Brock Lesnar is a guy who doesn't do a lot of live events, doesn't do a lot of house shows, but every time he steps in the ring, it has a big-fight feel.

At times I have been rendered breathless by the impeccable chaoticism, the absolutely perfect nonsense of some spectacle taking place outside myself, or, on the other hand, some spectacle of equally senseless outrageousness taking place within me.