Spectacle

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The spectacle is a concept developed by Guy Debord in The Society of the Spectacle (1967) to name the social relation in which lived experience is displaced by its representation. The spectacle is not a collection of images — not television, not advertising, not media in the narrow sense — but the entire organization of social life around mediated appearance. It names the condition in which the commodity has achieved the total colonization of social life, such that being gives way to having, and having gives way to appearing.

Describing the Zombie

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

¶Orientation — From Representation to Ontology

Critical attention to the zombie has long revolved around its representational elasticity. Within cultural studies the figure is treated as a mirror for historical anxieties: colonial servitude, viral globalization, consumerism, environmental collapse. Yet these readings, while valuable, leave an unasked question at the center of their interpretive field: what is the zombie such that it can bear so many metaphoric burdens without ceasing to be itself? The present study answers by describing the *zombie as an ontological form*—a particular configuration of life, death, and relation that recurs whenever vitality is detached from reflexivity.

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Spectacle

Describing the Zombie

¶Orientation — From Representation to Ontology