FL “Spectacle is a performance that demands aSen-on, but refuses reciprocity; it is a display that avoids local content, but produces a local effect. Spectacle is poli-cs or ideology that pretends to be entertainment; t is the theatrical figura-on of capital and an expression of its excesses. When spectacle seems safe, it is probably dangerous; when spectacle seems dangerous, it certainly is.” (190)
this morning, is all I could desire, and, if a nearer acquaintance is going to disappoint and disgust, let me not enter, but depart from this ‘Mount of Ascension’ carrying away the picture already imprinted on my heart.” [Viewing from a distance but not close up] William Mason Turner: “On account of this ubiquity of holy objects and curiosi-es, the whole church and its wonders necessarily appear as a sham, and the high religious aw with which we should view these wonders, subsides into a stoical, indifferent credulity, which plainly express our opinion of everything shown us, as humbug.” How do these viewpoints complicate the no-on of authen-city?