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Spectacle and the Self

By: Saul Ostrow
In: Encyclopedia of Identity
Edited by: Ronald L. Jackson II & Michael A. Hogg
Subject:Self & Identity, Identity, Self & Identity

The history of the spectacle is tied to the politics of illusion, seduction, fantasy, and exaggeration. The spectacle's main function is to promote passivity and confusion by manipulating the perception of events in such a way as to obscure their true nature. Under different social formations, it emerges in different forms. Under late capitalism, what constitutes the modern spectacle is a complex network of ideological and material conditions. These [Page 779]conditions now play an increasingly significant role ...

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  Ostrow, S. (2010). Spectacle and the self. In R. L. Jackson, & M. A. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopedia of identity (Vol. 1, pp. 779-782). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412979306.n250
  
  Ostrow, Saul. "Spectacle and the Self." In Encyclopedia of Identity, edited by Jackson, Ronald L., and Michael A. Hogg, 779-82. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2010. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412979306.n250.
  
  Ostrow, S. 2010. Spectacle and the Self. In: Ronald L. Jackson and Michael A. Hogg Editors, 2010. Encyclopedia of Identity, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 779-782 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412979306.n250> [Accessed 25 May 2022].
  
  Ostrow, Saul. "Spectacle and the Self." Encyclopedia of Identity. Edited by Ronald L. Jackson and Michael A. Hogg. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2010, pp. 779-82. SAGE Knowledge. 25 May 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412979306.n250.
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