2014年10月22日星期三

Reading 2: Situationist Reading

         Everyday life is often seen as a tedious, negative, and indifferent thing. The author believes that the modern daily life has been organized into an overall part of production and consumption. The depressed difference constitutes the basis of modern everyday life. Capitalism political rule and ideology have been penetrated into every corner of everyday life. Everyday life has been completely alienated and ruled by the combination of technology and bureaucracy.  Individual increasingly far away from the society, people become more and more estranged. It is maintaining the bureaucratic society of capitalist consumption control.
         The Situationists believed that the forms of capitalist culture, which they referred to as "Society of the Spectacle,” kept revolutionary energy in check by making everybody bored. People critique everyday life from the perspective of everyday life. Every life is the foundation of political activity and artistic activity. The nature of our society depends on everyday life. People are shaped by everyday life. The critique of everyday life deeply affects the Situationist, so the study of Situationist definitely returns to everyday life situation of the Situationists.
         The new capitalism’s rule for everyday life is not only reflecting on the material production and the field of consumption, but also implicitly exist the comprehensive control of people’s spiritual and cultural psychology. Therefore, it is necessary to critique and reconstruct everyday life. A process of reveal bourgeois ideology which is to expose the constantly progenitive everyday life in order to achieve the revolution of everyday life and make everyday life return to the original appearance. 

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