Question
The inventor of this concept claimed that it represented mass media, which is its most “glaring superficial manifestation.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this concept which partially titles a Situationist text which describes it as representing the social relationship of people mediated by images and conveying what people need and must have.
ANSWER: the spectacle [accept The Society of the Spectacle]
[10m] The spectacle is a critique of mass media and this concept, a form of reification. This concept refers to the attribution of value to objects instead of their production labor in a capitalist society.
ANSWER: commodity fetishism
[10e] Guy Debord, who coined the “spectacle,” followed the ideas of this philosopher who co-wrote Das Kapital with Friedrich Engels.
ANSWER: Karl Marx
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
Data
| Michigan B | Chicago A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago B | SIUE B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Missouri | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State C | Purdue C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Ohio State B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue B | SIUE A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |