As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

Never work.

The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

the more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires.

The whole life of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.

The real unity the spectacle proclaims masks the class division on which the capitalist mode of production is based.