Speaking at The Drawing Center last July, Boris Groys claimed that the contemporary situation is the opposite of the one described by Guy Debord in The Society of the Spectacle.
There are no longer any spectators, or even an audience. ‘We are all on stage’, he argued from the stage, as we watched from the audience, and wrote down what he said. Reflecting on the profusion of the blogs and the mysteries of the readership, Groys mused, ‘I am convinced they are being written for God,’ later clarifying, ‘who, of course, is dead.’
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