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Say what you will about totalitarian regimes…
1:08PM ON
08/09/2008
BY
Beth Comery
… they know from spectacle. The opening ceremonies last night were mind blowing. I was watching on hi-def and I still don’t know what the hell I was looking at half the time. Of course, for me, the highlight of the evening was finding out that the Chinese national anthem is called ‘The March of the Volunteers’. The New York Times has a swell slide show. These drummers kicked the whole thing off.
August 9th, 2008 at 4:06PM
JOE BERNSTEIN Says:
The Nuremburg Rallies were pretty good displays also.Only totalitarian regimes browbeat their citizens into this type of stuff.
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August 10th, 2008 at 6:06PM
Bill M. Says:
“The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living.” Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
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August 25th, 2008 at 4:25PM
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