Peter Eisenman speculates that 9/11 marked the end of Debord's Society of the Spectacle. He couldn't be more wrong; if anything, the war on terrorism has made our society more Spectacle-obsessed than ever. Just look at the banners and overlays on the cable news channels, grotesque in their all-caps, high-contrast celebration of disaster and mass murder. All the news media, not just television, is trending this way.
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Peter Eisenman speculates that 9/11 marked the end of Debord's Society of the Spectacle. He couldn't be more wrong; if anything, the war on terrorism has made our society more Spectacle-obsessed than ever. Just look at the banners and overlays on the cable news channels, grotesque in their all-caps, high-contrast celebration of disaster and mass murder. All the news media, not just television, is trending this way.