On Tuesday, June 10, at 7:00pm, the Anarchist Forum will present "Thus
Spoke The Spectacle", a live music video critique of media-saturated
culture. The performance, based on Guy Debord's landmark Situationist work
"The Society of the Spectacle," combines original music with bit and pieces
of the media barrage reassembled to draw out their hidden meanings. The
Spectacle, according to Debord is "the world of illusion where all attention
and consciousness converge," constituting a unified thought-world
constructed daily through communication technology. The Spectacle is
dominated by images of commercialized community: happy, well-adjusted people
connected to each other, and a multitude of products, in meaningful and
satisfying ways. The reality is a never-ending psychic invasion causing
alienation: separation from the self, from others, and from a genuine
experience of life. Music by Eric Goodman, lyrics by Guy Debord, live
performance by Eric Goodman and Mike Stevens. The performers will talk with
the audience after the show.