You will be going on a space adventure but you don't know what will happen.
Pick your spacecraft.
You will be going on a space adventure but you don't know what will happen
Evan Hernandez
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Asher Long
The U.S.S. Enterprise.
Ayden Green
The only thing
Sebastian Stewart
I'll take the crew also.
Bentley Thompson
The moon landing was a hoax so Jesus will be my vessel
Angel Cruz
Elon helps me.
Levi Gray
Starwars is faggot tier
Liam Watson
Tardis.
Dr Who is dumb but his shit is OP.
Aiden Hughes
At least you can recognize shit from it, what the fuck is that, cunt.
Kevin Evans
Let's go boys
Joseph Ross
Michael Gray
as long as it's the zpm powered Odyssey
Andrew Martin
Forgot image
Ian Scott
and post Asgard upgrades
Noah Wilson
This.
Luis King
Angel Morris
The sun crusher, from star wars
Gavin Howard
How about the eclipse class instead...
Landon Powell
fast nimble very good at surviving crash landings
Benjamin Sanchez
Jonathan Edwards
Looks gay tbh
Brandon Gonzalez
Eli Collins
Hunter Phillips
I’ll take the U.S.S. Voyager
Nicholas Morris
Man the Millennium Falcon is a great choice. Small and quick. Big enough for a whole crew. Plenty of storage room.
Xavier Williams
Christ Isaac, you weren't supposed to KEEP it
Owen Lopez
Stop making threads for faggots and their faggotry.
Cooper Brooks
Sebastian Rivera
The SDF-1, it will carry an entire city, so i wont be lonely. Also packs a lot of firepower and tranformation capabilities. And you are all welcome to join me.
James Williams
this is the perfect rocket its only missing backup cameras
Henry Cox
Crewed entirely by /k/ for comedic purposes.
Isaiah Ward
yeah, but not much can stop the main gun
Carter Howard
This.
Lucas Morgan
vorlon ship would be better. it sings to you.
Luke Jenkins
Andrew Green
Intergalactic Commander here
Gabriel Hughes
Yeah, but they were assholes. Well, assholes that pretended not to be assholes. At least the shadows told you straight up that you could go along with them or they’d fuck your shit up.
Brandon Morales
Surprised no one mentioned this.
Stealth cruiser with all the facilities on board.
Kevin Reed
Why not event horizon
Michael James
Did you see what kind of shit happened on that ship...?
Anthony Lopez
Because that was the worst movie to ever exist.
Xavier Fisher
one of the vorlon was pretty cool.
Connor Lewis
first half was pretty good.
Elijah Reed
And he croaked.
Jackson Davis
The Heart of Gold
James Young
not knowing stargate......
>kids these days
Grayson Lewis
First third more like. Then it turned into a shitty slasher movie in space. I waited for that fucker to come out. I stood in fucking line in fucking Santa Monica in the fucking summer to see it. Worst fucking waste of time ever. It had great pontential, fucking Sam Neil and fucking Laurence Fishburne. It could have been awesome. But they egregiously fucked it up.
Noah Allen
your the only one on it
3 day walk from where you turn the engines on to the bridge
Matthew Roberts
don't these just absorb your body and soul??
Brayden Anderson
No time to explain...
Liam Jackson
No.
Robert Morales
Josiah Williams
It’s Centauri’s car from The Last Starfighter. What’s to explain?
Zachary Reed
Does it come with Centauri?
Gavin Hill
What part of "No time to explain" do you faggots not understand? Get in the fucking car!
Jayden Butler
yeah, once it turned into a horror flick, it sucked.
Nicholas Evans
I'm still try to beat that fucking video game
Jacob Perez
Go blow a Zandozan.
Wyatt Mitchell
Alliance Chieftain
Caleb Ross
was it the one Sheridan killed, but allegedly didnt? we all know it was a cover-up
William James
>not glorious emperor class battleship
>not smiting the alien, the mutant, the heretic
>no 9000mm guns
>not travelling in a dimension of souleating niggers
>no nice aquilas
y'all posting pleb tier heresy
Ayden Morales
not without my sceptre
Leo King
Ayden Foster
>was it the one Sheridan killed, but allegedly didnt? we all know it was a cover-up
no, that was Kosh
Nathan Bennett
I knew you Zurian cultists got up to some weird shit.
Easton Miller
That was in the pilot and he didn’t die there; but yeah: Kosh. He later let a bunch of Shadows kill him before the rest of the Vorlons lost their fucking minds and went genocidal batshit.
Jaxson Harris
yep, and it's even got a secret pointy end
Hunter Allen
Manticore Stealth Bomber from Eve Online.
Fast, lots of firepower and the obvious advantage of being able to cloak up and disappear if things get too spicy.
Connor Hall
Andrew Martinez
Let me guess, “Death Blossom” was named after an improbably abused bunghole.
Nolan Nelson
That's the right choice, user but bombers sure as shit ain't fast
Aiden Sullivan
I demand a female with me at least, so I can colonize other planets
Tyler Martin
Adam Kelly
Hunter Perez
Yeah...Elon...you was all the time.
Owen Lopez
>natural selection
>sorts out the traitors to weak too serve our beloved holy emprah
>not boring, something happens everytime
>does the job
>metal af
Jackson Lee
Ayden Robinson
Hudson Flores
Robert Gray
Michael Clark
Jace Campbell
Landon Flores
Juan Lopez
the planet earth will be my space craft, set a trajectory for the sun's orbit!
Dominic Roberts
80% of crew ded
went the wrong way
takes days for a simple warp jump
no one knows how the ship was built or even how to properly operate or maintain it
>you would be better off in this
Elijah Hill
not space capable
Kevin Phillips
Isaac Morgan
Dick & Balls
Christian Anderson
Assimilate motherfuckers
Parker Ward
ultimate cuck ship
Evan Bell
LOLWUT
As compared to what exactly? All of the other fictitious manned spacecraft in this thread?
Ian Miller
Justin Turner
Samuel Rivera
not sure if the omnissiah aprroves this
Nathaniel Cooper
Eagle 5
Comfy af
Logan Mitchell
Dominic Stewart
yours is fictitious too, and the others are designed to leave the atmosphere
OP stated that you would be going on space adventure, and your piece of shit wouldn't even get to the upper atmosphere
David Rivera
no
Robert Lopez
Noah Cooper
Please, this fucker parks its ass anywhere close to you and you'll be shitting your pants and accepting your worthless fate.
Ian Long
Do you feel brewing?
Dylan Hernandez
Jacob Long
going on space adventure
chooses borg cube
gets assimilated
no space adventure, and queen controls what you do and even what you think
>enjoy having your bits cut off, and only being allowed to scream in your mind
John Jackson
choo choo motherfuckers
Mason Miller
>fast
>strong shields
>versatile weaponry
>fighter hangar
>jump drive
>huge cargo space
>can even take on capital ships
a good, versatile allrounder. prob the best ship for a space adventure
Wyatt Jones
This one looks functional.
Grayson Morris
I don't think you understand..
It's my space adventure. Me and the queen are cool. She knows it ain't like that between us. We cuddle among the stars.
>>Shes much softer than she looks.
Benjamin Ramirez
there's no "me" and "her" as borg.
Kayden Peterson
excellent choice my dear boy
Robert Ortiz
Asher Jackson
stop
Benjamin Gomez
Nuff said
Ryder Ortiz
Eli Brooks
>thermal exhaust port
Brody Rivera
Benjamin Gomez
the one and only
Elijah Sanchez
...
Dominic Wright
Jason Rogers
Grayson Bell
I've always been fond of Starfleet's elegant vessels, but the "transporters" kill you every time so I'd like to stay out of that universe.
Which one? The D is likely the most luxurious, but it's also very beige inside :(
Carson Walker
Joss suk
Isaiah Baker
Why not Snoke's Supremacy? It's 60 kilometers wide and has a supercomputer inside a static hyperspace field.
Evan Perez
Evan Perry
You forgot about AI ship mech.
Connor Stewart
just realize 40k imperium is pretty much like the borg but instead to assimilate is just assassinate everything thats heresy.
Lincoln Hughes
this
Brayden Cox
Doubt anyone knows this
Isaac Hernandez
>literally based on a hamburger
Jace Williams
>be seth
>create a star trek parody
>actually make it better than the current star trek
>laugh
>???
>profit
/thread
William Hall
Blackhole!!!!!!!!!
>showing your true power level user
>muh nig
Brandon Howard
The best. It's a mansion inside, way more than that one cockpit room they show.
Zachary Roberts
How many gays will Chibnall kill next season? Will they best last season's speedrun of 28 seconds after first appearing on screen?
Matthew Smith
That game is so ducking boring. Most of it is just waiting for the ship to move in a straight line. I want to be a gay space communist, not a depressed space capitalist.
Bentley Gutierrez
Adrian James
it has cannons that have limited range in space somehow
also very slow out of warp
and if you didn't have a crew, how many days would it take from the engine area to the bridge??
Julian Lee
That opening scene is lost on younger viewers because other works show longer ships unironically.
Grayson Butler
it houses and is powered by a supernova
Levi Howard
is that your mums dildo??
Gavin Brown
The queen was a mistake. The borg are menacing because they an amorphous blob that cannot be decapitated.
Colton Evans
Star Wars "turbolasers" have always had limited range.
Jonathan Peterson
Oliver Perez
>>jump drive
Evan Cook
Nathan Phillips
Star Wars has the most useless ships. Oh, I know, let's put wings on it so we can get plenty of lift in OUTER FUCKING SPACE.
Fucking morons.
Nolan Jenkins
Jonathan Martinez
American. Fuck yeah.
Brayden Campbell
He's always been a trekkie. Made a fan film as a teen you can look up.
Saru is bae tho
Sebastian Martinez
Carson Adams
ships have wings for added maneuverability while in a atmosphere, and this faggot talks about lift in space...
Kevin Garcia
Blake Gray
They're also for radiating heat. Every spaceship needs radiators.
Andrew Price
Luis Flores
Lunar whale or one of ratchets ships. Possibly the base from rc3.
Grayson Robinson
This
Levi Diaz
Nathan Ross
this ship has a special place. Its from the Farscape show
Jordan Clark
Aaron Miller
oh yeh that's mine
Colton Thomas
its preggers tho
have to stop your space adventure because your ship has PMS/mood swings or is busy getting shagged...
Christopher Harris
Eli Allen
Lucas Lewis
That's what I'm talking about my dood
David Cooper
shutup bong
Dominic Lopez
Definitely Samus' gunship
Hope she would come with it
Henry Parker
Actually no i change my choice to this
Joseph Evans
yeah its gonna have to be pic related
William Bailey
Hard to argue with this
But in the spirit of the post, pic related
Dominic Reed
Dylan Ramirez
overrated
Elijah Thompson
Jason Gutierrez
Pillar of Autumn
Nolan Smith
Michael Davis
now we talking
Mason Thomas
Levi Morris
Wait for me! My engine technology just developed enough to reached warp 3!
Oh...
Brody Martinez
know your place boy
Nolan Cook
Rocinante
Charles Sanchez
Fucking finally.
Parker Murphy
Leo Ramirez
All of you are fucked.
Andrew Hall
Ill take this with a full compliment of zpm's.
Jaxon Jenkins
Dune, my man. I second you with moebius
Colton Clark
Xavier Brooks
Fucking space jews
Jose Brown
>indeed
The O'Neil/Daniel Jackson of the Asgards
Aaron Williams
Vastly incorrect but really fucking cool
Noah Gonzalez
I think i will be ok
Hunter Taylor
It's about to get kinky
Jose Rodriguez
On second thought..
>pic related
William Murphy
Kek. Amazing Sci-fi horror btw. It's hard to find any that match up to the movies (in the limited options available in the scifi horror genere). Maybe you could suggest some?
Joshua Watson
demons fist my anus
Jason Scott
>not choosing the Long Night of Solace
true heresy
Andrew Miller
This ship is perfectly stream lined and fully modernized, there is no substitute for this kind of science, this is exactly what everyone should expect real space to be like. There are no mountains to high, no distance too far, for this kind of quality. This is what a professional design looks like and it does set the original stride for what we all need. Epic gaming? More like Total Stogie.
William Cruz
What could possibly go wrong?
Tyler Scott
Traitor
Jayden Lopez
>remastered red dwarf
kys
Adrian Scott
Primitive design. Outdated since 1960. The whole space neighbourhood will be lmaoing.
Charles Lopez
The best of the best!!
Cameron Roberts
Still doesn't choose the original, kys
Josiah Cook
Noah Morales
>yfw watching Aliens and reading Iain M. Banks after playing StarCraft and Halo
Alexander Williams
Landon Kelly
Probably a craftworld. Terrifying armaments, safe, flawless ftl, sustainable resources, and more than enough space for millions of people, nigh impossible to detect, and able to relair itself, while being aesthetic as fuck.
I'm ready for literally anything.
Caleb Gonzalez
yeah... Enterprise D with the holodecks!
Sebastian Ramirez
Ayy. Rewatching alien for the millionth time atm.
Joshua Young
personally I think its a bit ugly
and if its got room for millions, but you are on your own, can you fly it solo??
Christian Price
The sulaco never gets any love.
Ayden Perez
A Beluga Liner full of sluts
Jeremiah Bell
Hey guys, I'm done here for now, so don't expect me to answer if you @ me. I won't be back until this thread is bumped off.
Also, Tory Bruno is cooler than Elongated Muskrat. He's confident enough to not have hair transplants, his company's reliable rockets actually send things to other planets, has a rocket scientist wife he didn't need to buy, and doesn't make "presidential" tweets.
ok lady i luv u buh bye
Thomas Smith
Bmpu
Leo Bell
the Majestic class interdictor. every day.
Jacob Reed
Caleb Baker
Don't do that.
Ayden Adams
Christian Diaz
I'm killing this thread now.
Isaac Sanchez
Guy Debord 1967
Society of the Spectacle
Written: 1967;
Translation: Black & Red, 1977;
Transcription/HTML Markup: Greg Adargo.
Chapter 1 “Separation Perfected”
But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.
Feuerbach, Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity
Cooper Torres
1.
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Nolan Howard
2.
The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be reestablished. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation. The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living.
Robert Hall
3.
The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as all of society, as part of society, and as instrument of unification. As a part of society it is specifically the sector which concentrates all gazing and all consciousness. Due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is the common ground of the deceived gaze and of false consciousness, and the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of generalized separation.
Asher Richardson
4.
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
Evan Lewis
5.
The spectacle cannot be understood as an abuse of the world of vision, as a product of the techniques of mass dissemination of images. It is, rather, a Weltanschauung which has become actual, materially translated. It is a world vision which has become objectified.
Elijah Rodriguez
6.
The spectacle grasped in its totality is both the result and the project of the existing mode of production. It is not a supplement to the real world, an additional decoration. It is the heart of the unrealism of the real society. In all its specific forms, as information or propaganda, as advertisement or direct entertainment consumption, the spectacle is the present model of socially dominant life. It is the omnipresent affirmation of the choice already made in production and its corollary consumption. The spectacle’s form and content are identically the total justification of the existing system’s conditions and goals. The spectacle is also the permanent presence of this justification, since it occupies the main part of the time lived outside of modern production.
Easton Gray
7.
Separation is itself part of the unity of the world, of the global social praxis split up into reality and image. The social practice which the autonomous spectacle confronts is also the real totality which contains the spectacle. But the split within this totality mutilates it to the point of making the spectacle appear as its goal. The language of the spectacle consists of signs of the ruling production, which at the same time are the ultimate goal of this production.
Gabriel Murphy
8.
One cannot abstractly contrast the spectacle to actual social activity: such a division is itself divided. The spectacle which inverts the real is in fact produced. Lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle while simultaneously absorbing the spectacular order, giving it positive cohesiveness. Objective reality is present on both sides. Every notion fixed this way has no other basis than its passage into the opposite: reality rises up within the spectacle, and the spectacle is real. This reciprocal alienation is the essence and the support of the existing society.
Brayden Wright
it doesn't look like you can fit many sluts in that
Carter Morales
Never mind, that's going to take an hour. Just let it die if you have nothing more to contribute.
Isaac Lee
The frontal lower window is the cockpit
Search Beluga Liner cockpit
Matthew Brown
imperial fag.
Kevin Ward
>Millenium Falcon
Essentially an 18 wheeler with nos and machine gun turrets used to smuggle drugs.
Anthony Butler
Xavier Price
Jayden Collins
Does it come with full crew? If so, Enterprise E for maximum power meets maximum luxury and holodecks. If not, a 24th century modifies delta flyer for a strong and capable vessel that doesn't need a crew to operate.
Aaron Turner
Looks like y'all are speeding it up. I'll continue.
Caleb Myers
9.
In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.
Benjamin Sullivan
Ebon Hawk because I like it better than the Millennium Falcon and also it has drugs in the secret storage compartment.
John Perez
10.
The concept of spectacle unifies and explains a great diversity of apparent phenomena. The diversity and the contrasts are appearances of a socially organized appearance, the general truth of which must itself be recognized. Considered in its own terms, the spectacle is affirmation of appearance and affirmation of all human life, namely social life, as mere appearance. But the critique which reaches the truth of the spectacle exposes it as the visible negation of life, as a negation of life which has become visible.
Nicholas Morgan
11.
To describe the spectacle, its formation, its functions and the forces which tend to dissolve it, one must artificially distinguish certain inseparable elements. When analyzing the spectacle one speaks, to some extent, the language of the spectacular itself in the sense that one moves through the methodological terrain of the very society which expresses itself in the spectacle. But the spectacle is nothing other than the sense of the total practice of a social-economic formation, its use of time. It is the historical movement in which we are caught.
Anthony Smith
12.
The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than “that which appears is good, that which is good appears. The attitude which it demands in principle is passive acceptance which in fact it already obtained by its manner of appearing without reply, by its monopoly of appearance.
Jason Green
13.
The basically tautological character of the spectacle flows from the simple fact that its means are simultaneously its ends. It is the sun which never sets over the empire of modern passivity. It covers the entire surface of the world and bathes endlessly in its own glory.
Thomas Hall
No holodeck no deal
Josiah Fisher
14.
The society which rests on modern industry is not accidentally or superficially spectacular, it is fundamentally spectaclist. In the spectacle, which is the image of the ruling economy, the goal is nothing, development everything. The spectacle aims at nothing other than itself.
Landon Green
15.
As the indispensable decoration of the objects produced today, as the general expose of the rationality of the system, as the advanced economic sector which directly shapes a growing multitude of image-objects, the spectacle is the main production of present-day society.
Xavier Price
16.
The spectacle subjugates living men to itself to the extent that the economy has totally subjugated them. It is no more than the economy developing for itself. It is the true reflection of the production of things, and the false objectification of the producers.
Easton Morris
17.
The first phase of the domination of the economy over social life brought into the definition of all human realization the obvious degradation of being into having. The present phase of total occupation of social life by the accumulated results of the economy leads to a generalized sliding of having into appearing, from which all actual “having” must draw its immediate prestige and its ultimate function. At the same time all individual reality has become social reality directly dependent on social power and shaped by it. It is allowed to appear only to the extent that it is not.
Julian Parker
ROFL
But how do you sink in space?
Brandon Lopez
18.
Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior. The spectacle, as a tendency to make one see the world by means of various specialized mediations (it can no longer be grasped directly), naturally finds vision to be the privileged human sense which the sense of touch was for other epochs; the most abstract, the most mystifiable sense corresponds to the generalized abstraction of present-day society. But the spectacle is not identifiable with mere gazing, even combined with hearing. It is that which escapes the activity of men, that which escapes reconsideration and correction by their work. It is the opposite of dialogue. Wherever there is independent representation, the spectacle reconstitutes itself.
Isaac Sanchez
19.
The spectacle inherits all the weaknesses of the Western philosophical project which undertook to comprehend activity in terms of the categories of seeing; furthermore, it is based on the incessant spread of the precise technical rationality which grew out of this thought. The spectacle does not realize philosophy, it philosophizes reality. The concrete life of everyone has been degraded into a speculative universe.
Robert Peterson
20.
Philosophy, the power of separate thought and the thought of separate power, could never by itself supersede theology. The spectacle is the material reconstruction of the religious illusion. Spectacular technology has not dispelled the religious clouds where men had placed their own powers detached from themselves; it has only tied them to an earthly base. The most earthly life thus becomes opaque and unbreathable. It no longer projects into the sky but shelters within itself its absolute denial, its fallacious paradise. The spectacle is the technical realization of the exile of human powers into a beyond; it is separation perfected within the interior of man.
Adrian Roberts
cant escape the gravity of a planet/star/moon
Joseph Ortiz
21.
To the extent that necessity is socially dreamed, the dream becomes necessary. The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.
Jaxon Baker
22.
The fact that the practical power of modern society detached itself and built an independent empire in the spectacle can be explained only by the fact that this practical power continued to lack cohesion and remained in contradiction with itself.
Nathan Garcia
23.
The oldest social specialization, the specialization of power, is at the root of the spectacle. The spectacle is thus a specialized activity which speaks for all the others. It is the diplomatic representation of hierarchic society to itself, where all other expression is banned. Here the most modern is also the most archaic.
Jayden Rogers
24.
The spectacle is the existing order’s uninterrupted discourse about itself, its laudatory monologue. It is the self-portrait of power in the epoch of its totalitarian management of the conditions of existence. The fetishistic, purely objective appearance of spectacular relations conceals the fact that they are relations among men and classes: a second nature with its fatal laws seems to dominate our environment. But the spectacle is not the necessary product of technical development seen as a natural development. The society of the spectacle is on the contrary the form which chooses its own technical content. If the spectacle, taken in the limited sense of “mass media” which are its most glaring superficial manifestation, seems to invade society as mere equipment, this equipment is in no way neutral but is the very means suited to its total self-movement. If the social needs of the epoch in which such techniques are developed can only be satisfied through their mediation, if the administration of this society and all contact among men can no longer take place except through the intermediary of this power of instantaneous communication, it is because this “communication” is essentially unilateral. The concentration of “communication” is thus an accumulation, in the hands of the existing system’s administration, of the means which allow it to carry on this particular administration. The generalized cleavage of the spectacle is inseparable from the modern State, namely from the general form of cleavage within society, the product of the division of social labor and the organ of class domination.
Luke Mitchell
25.
Separation is the alpha and omega of the spectacle. The institutionalization of the social division of labor, the formation of classes, had given rise to a first sacred contemplation, the mythical order with which every power shrouds itself from the beginning. The sacred has justified the cosmic and ontological order which corresponded to the interests of the masters; it has explained and embellished that which society could not do. Thus all separate power has been spectacular, but the adherence of all to an immobile image only signified the common acceptance of an imaginary prolongation of the poverty of real social activity, still largely felt as a unitary condition. The modern spectacle, on the contrary, expresses what society can do, but in this expression the permitted is absolutely opposed to the possible. The spectacle is the preservation of unconsciousness within the practical change of the conditions of existence. It is its own product, and it has made its own rules: it is a pseudo-sacred entity. It shows what it is: separate power developing in itself, in the growth of productivity by means of the incessant refinement of the division of labor into a parcellization of gestures which are then dominated by the independent movement of machines; and working for an ever-expanding market. All community and all critical sense are dissolved during this movement in which the forces that could grow by separating are not yet reunited.
Jeremiah James
This. A tardis but with a functioning chameleon circuit so in not stuck in life box form.
Angel Stewart
26.
With the generalized separation of the worker and his products, every unitary view of accomplished activity and all direct personal communication among producers are lost. Accompanying the progress of accumulation of separate products and the concentration of the productive process, unity and communication become the exclusive attribute of the system’s management. The success of the economic system of separation is the proletarianization of the world.
Daniel Robinson
27.
Due to the success of separate production as production of the separate, the fundamental experience which in primitive societies is attached to a central task is in the process of being displaced, at the crest of the system’s development. by non-work, by inactivity. But this inactivity is in no way liberated from productive activity: it depends on productive activity and is an uneasy and admiring submission to the necessities and results of production; it is itself a product of its rationality. There can be no freedom outside of activity, and in the context of the spectacle all activity is negated. just as real activity has been captured in its entirety for the global construction of this result. Thus the present “liberation from labor,” the increase of leisure, is in no way a liberation within labor, nor a liberation from the world shaped by this labor. None of the activity lost in labor can be regained in the submission to its result.
Logan Perry
28.
The economic system founded on isolation is a circular production of isolation. The technology is based on isolation, and the technical process isolates in turn. From the automobile to television, all the goods selected by the spectacular system are also its weapons for a constant reinforcement of the conditions of isolation of “lonely crowds.” The spectacle constantly rediscovers its own assumptions more concretely.
Gabriel Evans
anyone else old enough to remember the wing commander movie from 99??
Luke Wright
29.
The spectacle originates in the loss of the unity of the world, and the gigantic expansion of the modern spectacle expresses the totality of this loss: the abstraction of all specific labor and the general abstraction of the entirety of production are perfectly rendered in the spectacle, whose mode of being concrete is precisely abstraction. In the spectacle, one part of the world represents itself to the world and is superior to it. The spectacle is nothing more than the common language of this separation. What binds the spectators together is no more than an irreversible relation at the very center which maintains their isolation. The spectacle reunites the separate, but reunites it as separate.
Owen Torres
30.
The alienation of the spectator to the profit of the contemplated object (which is the result of his own unconscious activity) is expressed in the following way: the more he contemplates the less he lives; the more he accepts recognizing himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and his own desires. The externality of the spectacle in relation to the active man appears in the fact that his own gestures are no longer his but those of another who represents them to him. This is why the spectator feels at home nowhere, because the spectacle is everywhere.
Robert Myers
31.
The worker does not produce himself; he produces an independent power. The success of this production, its abundance, returns to the producer as an abundance of dispossession. All the time and space of his world become foreign to him with the accumulation of his alienated products. The spectacle is the map of this new world, a map which exactly covers its territory. The very powers which escaped us show themselves to us in all their force.
Sebastian Thomas
32.
The spectacle within society corresponds to a concrete manufacture of alienation. Economic expansion is mainly the expansion of this specific industrial production. What grows with the economy in motion for itself can only be the very alienation which was at its origin.
Jonathan Carter
33.
Separated from his product, man himself produces all the details of his world with ever increasing power, and thus finds himself ever more separated from his world. The more his life is now his product, the more he is separated from his life.
Caleb King
34.
The spectacle is capital to such a degree of accumulation that it becomes an image.
Asher Clark
Chapter 2 “Commodity as Spectacle”
The commodity can only be understood in its undistorted essence when it becomes the universal category of society as a whole. Only in this context does the reification produced by commodity relations assume decisive importance both for the objective evolution of society and for the stance adopted by men towards it. Only then does the commodity become crucial for the subjugation of men’s consciousness to the forms in which this reification finds expression.... As labor is progressively rationalized and mechanized man’s lack of will is reinforced by the way in which his activity becomes less and less active and more and more contemplative.
Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness
Cameron Powell
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Can handle anything from scouting missions to full on space battles.
Joseph Gomez
35.
In the essential movement of the spectacle, which consists of taking up all that existed in human activity in a fluid state so as to possess it in a congealed state as things which have become the exclusive value by their formulation in negative of lived value, we recognize our old enemy, the commodity, who knows so well how to seem at first glance something trivial and obvious, while on the contrary it is so complex and so full of metaphysical subtleties.
Elijah Martin
36.
This is the principle of commodity fetishism, the domination of society by “intangible as well as tangible things,” which reaches its absolute fulfillment in the spectacle, where the tangible world is replaced by a selection of images which exist above it, and which simultaneously impose themselves as the tangible par excellence.
Xavier Long
37.
The world at once present and absent which the spectacle makes visible is the world of the commodity dominating all that is lived. The world of the commodity is thus shown for what it is, because its movement is identical to the estrangement of men among themselves and in relation to their global product.
Angel Allen
38.
The loss of quality so evident at all levels of spectacular language, from the objects it praises to the behavior it regulates, merely translates the fundamental traits of the real production which brushes reality aside: the commodity-form is through and through equal to itself, the category of the quantitative. The quantitative is what the commodity-form develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.
Colton Morgan
39.
This development which excludes the qualitative is itself, as development, subject to qualitative change: the spectacle indicates that it has crossed the threshold of its own abundance; this is as yet true only locally at some points, but is already true on the universal scale which is the original context of the commodity, a context which its practical movement, encompassing the Earth as a world market, has verified.
Easton Gonzalez
40.
The development of productive forces has been the real unconscious history which built and modified the conditions of existence of human groups as conditions of survival, and extended those conditions: the economic basis of all their undertakings. In a primitive economy, the commodity sector represented a surplus of survival. The production of commodities, which implies the exchange of varied products among independent producers, could for a long time remain craft production, contained within a marginal economic function where its quantitative truth was still masked. However, where commodity production met the social conditions of large scale commerce and of the accumulation of capitals, it seized total domination over the economy. The entire economy then became what the commodity had shown itself to be in the course of this conquest: a process of quantitative development. This incessant expansion of economic power in the form of the commodity, which transformed human labor into commodity-labor, into wage-labor, cumulatively led to an abundance in which the primary question of survival is undoubtedly resolved, but in such a way that it is constantly rediscovered; it is continually posed again each time at a higher level. Economic growth frees societies from the natural pressure which required their direct struggle for survival, but at that point it is from their liberator that they are not liberated. The independence of the commodity is extended to the entire economy over which it rules. The economy transforms the world, but transforms it only into a world of economy. The pseudo-nature within which human labor is alienated demands that it be served ad infinitum, and this service, being judged and absolved only by itself, in fact acquires the totality of socially permissible efforts and projects as its servants. The abundance of commodities, namely, of commodity relations, can be nothing more than increased survival.
Levi Walker
41.
The commodity’s domination was at first exerted over the economy in an occult manner; the economy itself, the material basis of social life, remained unperceived and not understood, like the familiar which is not necessarily known. In a society where the concrete commodity is rare or unusual, money, apparently dominant, presents itself as an emissary armed with full powers who speaks in the name of an unknown force. With the industrial revolution, the division of labor in manufactures, and mass production for the world market, the commodity appears in fact as a power which comes to occupy social life. It is then that political economy takes shape, as the dominant science and the science of domination.
Jaxson Bailey
42.
The spectacle is the moment when the commodity has attained the total occupation of social life. Not only is the relation to the commodity visible but it is all one sees: the world one sees is its world. Modern economic production extends its dictatorship extensively and intensively. In the least industrialized places, its reign is already attested by a few star commodities and by the imperialist domination imposed by regions which are ahead in the development of productivity. In the advanced regions, social space is invaded by a continuous superimposition of geological layers of commodities. At this point in the “second industrial revolution,” alienated consumption becomes for the masses a duty supplementary to alienated production. It is all the sold labor of a society which globally becomes the total commodity for which the cycle must be continued. For this to be done, the total commodity has to return as a fragment to the fragmented individual, absolutely separated from the productive forces operating as a whole. Thus it is here that the specialized science of domination must in turn specialize: it fragments itself into sociology, psychotechnics, cybernetics, semiology, etc., watching over the self-regulation of every level of the process.
Anthony Jones
43.
Whereas in the primitive phase of capitalist accumulation, “political economy sees in the proletarian only the worker” who must receive the minimum indispensable for the conservation of his labor power, without ever seeing him “in his leisure and humanity,” these ideas of the ruling class are reversed as soon as the production of commodities reaches a level of abundance which requires a surplus of collaboration from the worker. This worker, suddenly redeemed from the total contempt which is clearly shown him by all the varieties of organization and supervision of production, finds himself every day, outside of production and in the guise of a consumer, seemingly treated as an adult, with zealous politeness. At this point the humanism of the commodity takes charge of the worker’s “leisure and humanity,” simply because now political economy can and must dominate these spheres as political economy. Thus the “perfected denial of man” has taken charge of the totality of human existence.
Jeremiah Butler
44.
The spectacle is a permanent opium war which aims to make people identify goods with commodities and satisfaction with survival that increases according to its own laws. But if consumable survival is something which must always increase, this is because it continues to contain privation. If there is nothing beyond increasing survival, if there is no point where it might stop growing, this is not because it is beyond privation, but because it is enriched privation.
Connor Bell
45.
Automation, the most advanced sector of modern industry as well as the model which perfectly sums up its practice, drives the commodity world toward the following contradiction: the technical equipment which objectively eliminates labor must at the same time preserve labor as a commodity and as the only source of the commodity. If the social labor (time) engaged by the society is not to diminish because of automation (or any other less extreme form of increasing the productivity of labor), then new jobs have to be created. Services, the tertiary sector, swell the ranks of the army of distribution and are a eulogy to the current commodities; the additional forces which are mobilized just happen to be suitable for the organization of redundant labor required by the artificial needs for such commodities.
Gavin Edwards
You can choose not to land
Easton Miller
46.
Exchange value could arise only as an agent of use value, but its victory by means of its own weapons created the conditions for its autonomous domination. Mobilizing all human use and establishing a monopoly over its satisfaction, exchange value has ended up by directing use. The process of exchange became identified with all possible use and reduced use to the mercy of exchange. Exchange value is the condottiere of use value who ends up waging the war for himself.
Cooper Perez
47.
The tendency of use value to fall, this constant of capitalist economy, develops a new form of privation within increased survival: the new privation is not far removed from the old penury since it requires most men to participate as wage workers in the endless pursuit of its attainment, and since everyone knows he must submit or die. The reality of this blackmail accounts for the general acceptance of the illusion at the heart of the consumption of modern commodities: use in its most impoverished form (food and lodging) today exists only to the extent that it is imprisoned in the illusory wealth of increased survival. The real consumer becomes a consumer of illusions. The commodity is this factually real illusion, and the spectacle is its general manifestation.
Nicholas Anderson
48.
In the inverted reality of the spectacle, use value (which was implicitly contained in exchange value) must now be explicitly proclaimed precisely because its factual reality is eroded by the overdeveloped commodity economy and because counterfeit life requires a pseudo-justification.
Kayden Anderson
49.
The spectacle is the other side of money: it is the general abstract equivalent of all commodities. Money dominated society as the representation of general equivalence, namely, of the exchangeability of different goods whose uses could not be compared. The spectacle is the developed modern complement of money where the totality of the commodity world appears as a whole, as a general equivalence for what the entire society can be and can do. The spectacle is the money which one only looks at, because in the spectacle the totality of use is already exchanged for the totality of abstract representation. The spectacle is not only the servant of pseudo-use, it is already in itself the pseudo-use of life.
Jack Edwards
50.
At the moment of economic abundance, the concentrated result of social labor becomes visible and subjugates all reality to appearance, which is now its product. Capital is no longer the invisible center which directs the mode of production: its accumulation spreads it all the way to the periphery in the form of tangible objects. The entire expanse of society is its portrait.
Bentley Adams
51.
The victory of the autonomous economy must at the same time be its defeat. The forces which it has unleashed eliminate the economic necessity which was the immutable basis of earlier societies. When economic necessity is replaced by the necessity for boundless economic development, the satisfaction of primary human needs is replaced by an uninterrupted fabrication of pseudo-needs which are reduced to the single pseudo-need of maintaining the reign of the autonomous economy. The autonomous economy permanently breaks away from fundamental need to the extent that it emerges from the social unconscious which unknowingly depended on it. “All that is conscious wears out. What is unconscious remains unalterable. But once freed, does it not fall to ruins in turn?” (Freud).
Xavier Green
Only one logical choice
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Jaxon Nguyen
52.
As soon as society discovers that it depends on the economy, the economy, in fact, depends on society. This subterranean force, which grew until it appeared sovereign, has lost its power. That which was the economic it must become the I. The subject can emerge only from society, namely from the struggle within society. The subject’s possible existence depends on the outcome of the class struggle which shows itself to be the product and the producer of the economic foundation of history.
Dylan Turner
53.
The consciousness of desire and the desire for consciousness are identically the project which, in its negative form, seeks the abolition of classes, the workers’ direct possession of every aspect of their activity. Its opposite is the society of the spectacle, where the commodity contemplates itself in a world it has created.
Joseph Powell
Chapter 3 “Unity and Division Within Appearance”
A lively new polemic about the concepts “one divides into two” and “two fuse into one” is unfolding on the philosophical front in this country. This debate is a struggle between those who are for and those who are against the materialist dialectic, a struggle between two conceptions of the world: the proletarian conception and the bourgeois conception. Those who maintain that “one divides into two” is the fundamental law of things are on the side of the materialist dialectic; those who maintain that the fundamental law of things is that “two fuse into one” are against the materialist dialectic. The two sides have drawn a clear line of demarcation between them, and their arguments are diametrically opposed. This polemic is a reflection, on the ideological level, of the acute and complex class struggle taking place in China and in the world.
Red Flag, (Peking), 21 September 1964
Jose Campbell
54.
The spectacle, like modern society, is at once unified and divided. Like society, it builds its unity on the disjunction. But the contradiction, when it emerges in the spectacle, is in turn contradicted by a reversal of its meaning, so that the demonstrated division is unitary, while the demonstrated unity is divided.
Justin Adams
55.
The struggle of powers constituted for the management of the same socio-economic system is disseminated as the official contradiction but is in fact part of the real unity–on a world scale as well as within every nation.
Jonathan Moore
56.
The spectacular sham struggles of rival forms of separate power are at the same time real in that they translate the unequal and antagonistic development of the system, the relatively contradictory interests of classes or subdivisions of classes which acknowledge the system and define themselves as participants within its power. Just as the development of the most advanced economy is a clash between some priorities and others, the totalitarian management of the economy by a State bureaucracy and the condition of the countries within the sphere of colonization or semi-colonization are defined by specific peculiarities in the varieties of production and power. These diverse oppositions can be passed off in the spectacle as absolutely distinct forms of society (by means of any number of different criteria). But in actual fact, the truth of the uniqueness of all these specific sectors resides in the universal system that contains them: the unique movement that makes the planet its field, capitalism.
Chase Perez
The Roger Young.
Camden Ramirez
57.
The society which carries the spectacle does not dominate the underdeveloped regions by its economic hegemony alone. It dominates them as the society of the spectacle. Even where the material base is still absent, modern society has already invaded the social surface of each continent by means of the spectacle. It defines the program of the ruling class and presides over its formation, just as it presents pseudo-goods to be coveted, it offers false models of revolution to local revolutionaries. The spectacle of bureaucratic power, which holds sway over some industrial countries, is an integral part of the total spectacle, its general pseudo-negation and support. The spectacle displays certain totalitarian specializations of communication and administration when viewed locally, but when viewed in terms of the functioning of the entire system these specializations merge in a world division of spectacular tasks.
Cameron Nelson
58.
The division of spectacular tasks preserves the entirety of the existing order and especially the dominant pole of its development. The root of the spectacle is within the abundant economy the source of the fruits which ultimately take over the spectacular market despite the ideological-police protectionist barriers of local spectacles aspiring to autarchy.
Angel Powell
59.
Under the shimmering diversions of the spectacle, banalization dominates modern society the world over and at every point where the developed consumption of commodities has seemingly multiplied the roles and objects to choose from. The remains of religion and of the family (the principal relic of the heritage of class power) and the moral repression they assure, merge whenever the enjoyment of this world is affirmed–this world being nothing other than repressive pseudo-enjoyment. The smug acceptance of what exists can also merge with purely spectacular rebellion; this reflects the simple fact that dissatisfaction itself became a commodity as soon as economic abundance could extend production to the processing of such raw materials.
Adam Turner
60.
The celebrity, the spectacular representation of a living human being, embodies this banality by embodying the image of a possible role. Being a star means specializing in the seemingly lived; the star is the object of identification with the shallow seeming life that has to compensate for the fragmented productive specializations which are actually lived. Celebrities exist to act out various styles of living and viewing society unfettered, free to express themselves globally. They embody the inaccessible result of social labor by dramatizing its by-products magically projected above it as its goal: power and vacations, decision and consumption, which are the beginning and end of an undiscussed process. In one case state power personalizes itself as a pseudo-star; in another a star of consumption gets elected as a pseudo-power over the lived. But just as the activities of the star are not really global, they are not really varied.
Angel Campbell
61.
The agent of the spectacle placed on stage as a star is the opposite of the individual, the enemy of the individual in himself as well as in others. Passing into the spectacle as a model for identification, the agent renounces all autonomous qualities in order to identify himself with the general law of obedience to the course of things. The consumption celebrity superficially represents different types of personality and shows each of these types having equal access to the totality of consumption and finding similar happiness there. The decision celebrity must possess a complete stock of accepted human qualities. Official differences between stars are wiped out by the official similarity which is the presupposition of their excellence in everything. Khrushchev became a general so as to make decisions on the battle of Kursk, not on the spot, but at the twentieth anniversary, when he was master of the State. Kennedy remained an orator even to the point of proclaiming the eulogy over his own tomb, since Theodore Sorenson continued to edit speeches for the successor in the style which had characterized the personality of the deceased. The admirable people in whom the system personifies itself are well known for not being what they are; they became great men by stooping below the reality of the smallest individual life, and everyone knows it.
John Mitchell
62.
False choice in spectacular abundance, a choice which lies in the juxtaposition of competing and complimentary spectacles and also in the juxtaposition of roles (signified and carried mainly by things) which are at once exclusive and overlapping, develops into a struggle of vaporous qualities meant to stimulate loyalty to quantitative triviality. This resurrects false archaic oppositions, regionalisms and racisms which serve to raise the vulgar hierarchic ranks of consumption to a preposterous ontological superiority. In this way, the endless series of trivial confrontations is set up again. from competitive sports to elections, mobilizing a sub-ludic interest. Wherever there is abundant consumption, a major spectacular opposition between youth and adults comes to the fore among the false roles–false because the adult, master of his life, does not exist and because youth, the transformation of what exists, is in no way the property of those who are now young, but of the economic system, of the dynamism of capitalism. Things rule and are young; things confront and replace one another.
Austin Baker
63.
What hides under the spectacular oppositions is a unity of misery. Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other, all of them built on real contradictions which are repressed. The spectacle exists in a concentrated or a diffuse form depending on the necessities of the particular stage of misery which it denies and supports. In both cases, the spectacle is nothing more than an image of happy unification surrounded by desolation and fear at the tranquil center of misery.
Easton Harris
64.
The concentrated spectacle belongs essentially to bureaucratic capitalism, even though it may be imported as a technique of state power in mixed backward economies or, at certain moments of crisis, in advanced capitalism. In fact, bureaucratic property itself is concentrated in such a way that the individual bureaucrat relates to the ownership of the global economy only through an intermediary, the bureaucratic community, and only as a member of this community. Moreover, the production of commodities, less developed in bureaucratic capitalism, also takes on a concentrated form: the commodity the bureaucracy holds on to is the totality of social labor, and what it sells back to society is wholesale survival. The dictatorship of the bureaucratic economy cannot leave the exploited masses any significant margin of choice, since the bureaucracy itself has to choose everything and since any other external choice, whether it concern food or music, is already a choice to destroy the bureaucracy completely. This dictatorship must be accompanied by permanent violence. The imposed image of the good envelops in its spectacle the totality of what officially exists, and is usually concentrated in one man, who is the guarantee of totalitarian cohesion. Everyone must magically identify with this absolute celebrity or disappear. This celebrity is master of non-consumption, and the heroic image which gives an acceptable meaning to the absolute exploitation that primitive accumulation accelerated by terror really is. If every Chinese must learn Mao, and thus be Mao, it is because he can be nothing else. Wherever the concentrated spectacle rules, so does the police.
Lincoln Powell
65.
The diffuse spectacle accompanies the abundance of commodities, the undisturbed development of modern capitalism. Here every individual commodity is justified in the name of the grandeur of the production of the totality of objects of which the spectacle is an apologetic catalogue. Irreconcilable claims crowd the stage of the affluent economy’s unified spectacle; different star-commodities simultaneously support contradictory projects for provisioning society: the spectacle of automobiles demands a perfect transport network which destroys old cities, while the spectacle of the city itself requires museum-areas. Therefore the already problematic satisfaction which is supposed to come from the consumption of the whole, is falsified immediately since the actual consumer can directly touch only a succession of fragments of this commodity happiness, fragments in which the quality attributed to the whole is obviously missing every time.
Lucas Hall
66.
Every given commodity fights for itself, cannot acknowledge the others, and attempts to impose itself everywhere as if it were the only one. The spectacle, then, is the epic poem of this struggle, an epic which cannot be concluded by the fall of any Troy. The spectacle does not sing the praises of men and their weapons, but of commodities and their passions. In this blind struggle every commodity, pursuing its passion, unconsciously realizes something higher: the becoming-world of the commodity, which is also the becoming-commodity of the world. Thus, by means of a ruse of commodity logic, what’s specific in the commodity wears itself out in the fight while the commodity-form moves toward its absolute realization.
Connor Cruz
The bump limit is only 300 now? Neato. I thought it was 500. Don't empty-bump your threads. It's annoying for those waiting for closure.
Grayson Gomez
some have difficulties just flying past
Xavier Turner
forgot pic
Michael Wood
What if you run out of drones?
Ayden Perry
unfortunately
Hudson Powell
en taro tassadar
Jonathan Anderson
Eli Perry
is that a beverage holder at the front??
John Mitchell
Cobra MkIII.