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15-06-2022

Hampir 10 tahun sebelum buku Erich Fromm To Have or To Be terbit, Guy Debord di 1967 merilis tesis-tesisnya dalam sebuah buku: La société du spectacle, diterjemahkan dalam bahasa Inggris: The Society of the Spectacle. Dalam tesis 17 Debord menuliskan: “The first stage of the economy’s domination of social life brought about an evident degradation of being into having — human fulfillment was no longer equated with what one was, but with what one possessed. The present stage, in which social life has become completely dominated by the accumulated productions of the economy, is bringing about a general shift from having to appearing — all “having” must now derive its immediate prestige and its ultimate purpose from appearances. At the same time all individual reality has become social, in the sense that it is shaped by social forces and is directly dependent on them. Individual reality is allowed to appear only if it is not actually real.”  Dalam tesis 4 Debord memaparkan hal sungguh menarik, bahkan jika itu dibaca 50 tahun kemudian di era merebaknya sosial-media saat ini, “The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images.”

Duapuluh tahun kemudian, di 1988 Debord merilis Comments on the Society of the Spectacle. Salah satu yang menarik adalah pernyataan, “Unanswerable lies have succeeded in eliminating public opinion, which first lost the ability to make itself heard and then very quickly dissolved altogether. This evidently has significant consequences for politics, the applied sciences, the legal system and the arts.”[1] Dan di bagian lain, “Such a perfect democracy constructs its own inconceivable foe, terrorism. Its wish is to be judged by its enemies rather than by its results.”[2] *** (15-06-2022)

 

[1] Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle , Verso, 1990, hlm. 13

[2] Ibid, hlm. 24

Pada Awalnya Adalah 'Revolusi Mental' (1)