More importantly, we wanted to reflect on how online spaces offer up room for self actualisation and affirmation for people of colour in a way that the real world does not. In the aftermath of Brexit, which was a shock to a lot of us, we wanted to reflect on how online spaces distort reality and in effect trap us in virtual echo chambers that give us a false sense of the political and social order. The medium that was of most interest as a group of twenty-something socially and politically engaged people was social media, because that is the primary way in which we consume news, engage with the world, formulate our subjectivity and articulate our political points of view. Debord described the ways in which images have come to dominate our mass media culture and become stand ins for actual content - so much so that our understanding of the world, our relations and the way we speak to each other is mediated and defined by the spectacle. Brexit had just happened, the United State’s presidential race was at its peak, and we were trying to make sense of everything that was going on.
The idea for ‘The Spectacle’ came from Guy Debord’s seminal book ‘Society of the Spectacle’.
#magazine #fair #housmans #london #goldsmith #radicalbookfair #thespectacle #race #culture #online #printĪ post shared by Skin Deep Mag on at 8:22am PDTĬan you tell us about coming up with this issue’s theme, ‘The Spectacle?’ Come and chat with us from 12 to 6pm tomorrow at Goldsmiths! ?. ?THE SPECTACLE ? we're going to be at The Radical Book Fair tomorrow with come and say hi ? to us and check out our new issue 'The Spectacle' and our previous issue 'Imagining 2043' there!.