Using spectacle to alienate people from each other and life, President Snow's Panem from Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is Guy Debord's Society of Spectacle. As Debord predicts, the spectacle of the Annual Hunger Games causes a degradation of life for citizens in the Districts and the Capitol, leading to a society where nobody truly lives and citizens accept the narrative that President Snow and his regime promote about the Games. Using Luis Althusser to understand how President Snow links his power to that of the Games, we understand how the dictator brainwashed his citizens into compliance through his narrative, and also, how this narrative is constantly delivered through the various ISAs and SAs in Panem to degrade life into false unity and false consciousness, socially coercing citizens to fall in line with the narrative around spectacle. Katniss Everdeen is unique as she is too authentic to use her celebrity status in promotion of the Games; instead, she accidentally performs Debord's true critiques, sparking a rebellion through love. Katniss' acts of love translate into true critiques of the spectacle that is Panem and the Games, and because Snow has spent decades brainwashing his populace into a blind acceptance of celebrity and social similarities, Katniss is successful as the Mockingjay through rebellious love. Through Katniss, we see how spectacle can be as self-defeating as it is self-perpetuating.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:42:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leonardo Andre Elwing Goldberg.pdf: 1452372 bytes, checksum: eefc4f4be6d28a82db46f0c526aeedc9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this dissertation is to link the social networking sites, more specifically the facebook to Society of Spectacle concepto of Guy Debord. In this proposal the homonyms text and movie Society of Spectacle have been revisited by authors like Marx, Vargas Llosa, Khel, Azevedo and Bauman. The Debord marxismo theory influences as well as the different idea os spectacle concept by Vargas Llosa and the Khel studies about TV realities shows, guided by him, were examined. Furthermore, we emphasize Azevedo language issues and their changes as well as Bauman ideas about the surveillance and recognition in networking. This work wants to understand relationships in the website, passing for Hegel, Freud and Lacan experiences in order to achieve a debordian Desire concept. Besides of this, we are attempting to reach better knowledge of current situation of internet and society from the Debord pespective of Spectacle also to re-signify relationships and society from facebook device. / A presente dissertação se propõe articular a ideia de redes sociais e sites de relacionamentos virtuais, mais especificamente o facebook, ao conceito de Sociedade do Espetáculo de Guy Debord. Dentro dessa proposta, o texto e o filme homônimos, Sociedade do Espetáculo , são revisitados e trabalhados junto aos autores como Marx, Vargas Llosa, Khel, Azevedo e Bauman. Examinou-se a influência marxista em Debord, a ideia diferenciada de espetáculo concebida por Vargas Llosa e o estudo de Khel dos realities shows e da televisão norteados por Debord. Além disso, destacamos Azevedo e a questão da linguagem e suas transformações, e Bauman que deflagra a ideia de vigilância e reconhecimento nas redes sociais. O recorte do trabalho visou à compreensão dos relacionamentos pessoais nos sites de relacionamentos virtuais, então se passou por Hegel, Freud e Lacan para pensar a concepção debordiana de Desejo. Ademais, dentro desse panorama, construiu-se uma tessitura para uma melhor compreensão da conjuntura atual da internet e da sociedade sob o prisma do espetáculo para Debord e do site facebook, e finda em uma elaboração sobre a ressignificação dos relacionamentos pessoais e da sociedade a partir do dispositivo facebook. Concluiu-se que os sites de relacionamentos virtuais atendem à demanda, de forma aperfeiçoada, da Sociedade do Espetáculo, transformando os relacionamentos pessoais.

Cette thèse envisage la critique de la « société du Spectacle » (concept forgé dans l’essai éponyme de Guy Debord) telle qu’elle procède dans des œuvres du théâtre expérimental et sur les scènes de la performance au cours des années 2000 à Berlin, Londres et Paris. Les pièces étudiées recyclent des références empruntées aux médias de masse, souvent assimilés à des machines à aliéner le public. Le corpus regroupe aussi bien des auteurs et des metteurs en scène que des collectifs : Martin Crimp, David Ayala, Joël Jouanneau, Falk Richter, René Pollesch, Tom Kühnel, Katie Mitchell, le Collectif MxM (Cyril Teste), Forced Entertainment (Tim Etchells), Gob Squad et Superamas. L’approche pluridisciplinaire traite à la fois des composants dramaturgiques et des considérants sociologiques de la représentation. D’une part, ce travail étudie la structuration des réseaux dans lesquels les artistes se rencontrent ou coopèrent. D’autre part, nous examinons tant l’organisation des différents éléments scéniques, parmi lesquels les caméras et les écrans tiennent une place importante, que la corporéité des interprètes ainsi que les modes de réception des spectateurs, entre autres par la mise en place d’une enquête. En trans-contextualisant leurs sources, les artistes instaurent des écarts et creusent de la distance à travers divers procédés : l’incorporation littérale, la citation, la parodie et le pastiche, mais aussi l’ironie et le ton cool fun. La dimension critique de ces œuvres ne s’exerce pas de manière frontale et n’est souvent pas même revendiquée. Loin de la rejeter en bloc, les auteurs et interprètes affectionnent certains objets de la culture des médias de masse. Pour mettre en branle leur fonction critique, ils se situent au cœur même de la « société du Spectacle » et de l’esprit du temps. Ainsi cette critique s’est déplacée de l’extérieur à l’intérieur du champ. Leur démarche mêlant le sérieux au ludique dénote une volonté de ne pas se désolidariser des spectateurs face auxquels ils veulent s’inscrire sur un pied d’égalité pour rendre le dialogue et parfois l’interaction possibles. / This thesis tackles the critic of the “Society of the Spectacle” (concept brought by the Guy Debord’s eponymous essay) performed in experimental theater works and the performance scenes during the 2000s in Berlin, London and Paris. The studied theater pieces borrow cultural references to the mass media, often considered as machines to alienate the public. The corpus includes authors as well as stage directors and collectives: Martin Crimp, David Alaya, Joël Jouanneau, Falk Richter, René Pollesch, Tom Khünel, Katie Mitchell, the Collective MxM (Cyril Teste), Forced Entertainment (Tim Etchells), Gob Squad and Superamas.The multidisciplinary approach deals with both the dramaturgy aspects and the sociological patterns of representation. One the one hand, this work studies the network structure in which the artists meet each others and collaborate. On the other hand, we investigate the various stage elements, among which cameras and screens take an major part, as well as the actors’ corporeality as well as the spectators’ ways of perception, among others, by the mean of a survey. By trans-contextualizing their sources, the artists create a gap and increase the distance with them using several techniques: literal incorporation, quotation, parody and pastiche, but also irony and cool fun tone.The critical dimension of these works is not straight forward, and often not even claimed. Far from rejecting it as a whole, the authors and actors are fond of the mass media culture’s objects. In order to set in motion their critical function, they place themselves at the heart of the “Society of the Spectacle” and the Zeitgeist. Thus, such a critic has moved from an external point of view to an internal one. Their approach, mixing seriousness and fun, indicates a will not to separate themselves from the spectators to whom they want to set on equal footing in order to make the dialogue and sometimes the interaction possible.

This thesis aims to analyse the similarities and differences in Guy Debords' and Michel Foucaults' approaches to the relationship of vision and power. Its purpose is to show the power of visual discourse and define whether it is possible for society to resist or escape from this power. The thesis is methodologically based on the distincion of political and philosophical thoughts of both authors: according to Debord, society emerges from the power of the spectacle through the non-capitalist class order of society, alternatively, Foucault sees power relations as a set of practices that permeate the entire society and each one of us. These are practices which we are formed by and which we also form ouselves. Therefore, it is impossible for him to overcome or completely eliminate interconnection of power and vision from society. Based on this distinction, the thesis attempts to verify the assumption that Debord's inspiration by Marxism does not allow him to reflect the relationship of vision and power in its whole range in the context of non-capitalist order. Unlike Foucault's concept of surveillance, Debord's theory of spectacle is utopian.