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All that once was directly lived has become mere representation".
Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation".
The Parisian situationist Guy Debord once wrote: "All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
All that once was directly lived has become mere representation". Reading these lines today, you might wonder why Debord's concept of spectacle has gained a reputation for being oblique and elusive.
"All that once was directly lived has become mere representation," he argued, describing the trajectory of human civilization in terms of "the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing".
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Their willingness to ruin lives was directly linked to their political power.
"Everything that was once directly lived," he insists, "has moved away into representation.... Any Paris of the future that is neither a frozen artifact nor an inhabited holding company will perforce involve fear, dirt, sloth, ruin, and accident.
"All that was once directly lived has become mere representation," he observes in the opening pages of The Society of the Spectacle – a statement that's only grown in truth since he made it, back in 1967.
But the number of drivers' lives he was directly responsible for saving made him even bigger.
Using tagged D2 receptors, this hypothesis was directly tested in live neurons in brain slices with 2-photon laser microscopy.
Six hours after the CLP, rhodamine-dextran conjugate was intravenously injected, and vascular leakiness was directly imaged in live mice.
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