Self-Contemplation – A Modern Adaptation of the Spectacle

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.201128.022How to use a DOI?

Keywords

mass media, history, social theory, consumerism

Abstract

This paper discusses the origins and developments of a spectacular society since the post-war era, when mass media is expanding into the visual world of daily life, giving birth to a new way to organize the society around the notion of consumption and reduce into the representation of an immense spectacle. From the analysis of theories concerning consumption and spectacle, a new form of contemplation can be discovered in the contemporary society, which can be identified as “self-contemplation”.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shiqiao Feng
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/30
TI  - Self-Contemplation – A Modern Adaptation of the Spectacle
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 2nd International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 111
EP  - 113
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.201128.022
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.201128.022
ID  - Feng2020
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