The Society of the Spectacle

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The status of celebrity offers the promise of being showered with ‘all good things’ that capitalism has to offer. The grotesque display of celebrity lives (and deaths) is the contemporary form of the cult of personality; those ‘famous for being famous’ hold out the spectacular promise of the complete erosion of an autonomously lived life in return for an apotheosis as an image." I cannot see this quote anywhere?

Ursa I believe this is a restatement of section 60-61 from chapter 2.

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Can anyone direct me to a summary/explanation of Chapter 4?

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