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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
empire-- see, i don't see the "imperialism", as, there is no emperor, i see an emergent system, yes, but i see no top-down authority, rather, the system itself creates and selects its own bosses. an empire without agency. a fiction. anyway, etc.
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I think that's where the harking back to the 68 era becomes problematic. As you know, intellectual debates in that period were steeped in the language of imperialism, either in reference to the US in Vietnam, the French in Algiers, the Soviet Bloc, etc. But Empire, as a term, while not entirely inappropriate, just seems like an unnecessary distraction now. Cultural imperialism, too. While the role of images (the 'spectacle') is now arguably greater than it's ever been, it's also used in a far more complex way than anything Debord had to contend with more than half a century ago. A case of the problem moving on while the methods employed to tackle it stand still.