In contrast to the project outlined in the “Theses on Feuerbach” (the realization of philosophy in a praxis transcending the opposition between idealism and materialism), the spectacle preserves the ideological features of both materialism and idealism, imposing them in the pseudo-concreteness of its universe. The contemplative aspect of the old materialism, which conceives the world as representation and not as activity – and which ultimately idealizes matter – is fulfilled in the spectacle, where concrete things are automatic masters of social life. Conversely, the dreamed activity of
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