 | Kenneth J. Saltman, David Gabbard - Education - 2003 - 370 pages
...Spectacle Antiquity had been a civilization of spectacle. "To render accessible to a multitude of men \sic] the inspection of a small number of objects": this...architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there was a predominance of public life, the intensity of festivals, sensual proximity.... | |
 | Social Science - 278 pages
...occurred during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.59 "Antiquity had been a civilization of the spectacle. To render accessible to a multitude of men the inspection of a small number of objects,'" that is, the personage and the accouterments of power and authority as incarnate in the figure of the... | |
 | Gary Shapiro - Art - 2003 - 468 pages
...principle of the polis, he suggested, was the spectacle: "To render accessible to a multitude of men a small number of objects': this was the problem to which the architecture of temples, theaters and circuses responded." In these spectacles blood flowed, so that society was reinvigorated... | |
 | David M. Kaplan - Philosophy - 2004 - 534 pages
...it is merely the solution of a technical problem; but, through it, a whole type of society emerges. Antiquity had been a civilization of spectacle. 'To...architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there was a predominance of public life, the intensity of festivals, sensual proximity.... | |
 | Vanessa R. Schwartz, Jeannene M. Przyblyski - Art - 2004 - 440 pages
...it is merely the solution of a technical problem; but, through it, a whole type of society emerges. Antiquity had been a civilization of spectacle. 'To...architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there was a predominance of public life, the intensity of festivals, sensual proximity.... | |
 | Vanessa R. Schwartz, Jeannene M. Przyblyski - Art - 2004 - 436 pages
...it is merely the solution of a technical problem; but, through it, a whole type of society emerges. Antiquity had been a civiliz.ation of spectacle. 'To...architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there was a predominance of public life, the intensity of festivals, sensual proximity.... | |
 | Frank Webster, Raimo Blom - Computers - 2004 - 466 pages
...it is merely the solution of a technical problem; but, through it, a whole type of society emerges. Antiquity had been a civilization of spectacle. 'To...architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there was a predominance of public life, the intensity of festivals, sensual proximity.... | |
 | Victor Buchli - Social Science - 2004 - 368 pages
...solution of a technical problem; but, through it, a whole type of society emerges. Antiquity had 281 been a civilization of spectacle. 'To render accessible...architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there was a predominance of public life, the intensity of festivals, sensual proximity.... | |
 | David Spurr, Cornelia Tschichold - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.). - 2005 - 334 pages
...diat Foucault so carefully set between a society of spectacle, where what matters is the "renderfingj accessible to a multitude of men the inspection of a small number of objects," and a society of surveillance where, on the contrary, it is important to "procure for a small number,... | |
 | Wayne Morrison - Civilization - 2006 - 428 pages
...of spectacle, but of surveillance'. While 'Antiquity had been a civilisation of spectacle', making accessible to a multitude of men the inspection of a small number of objects' in modernity individuality has replaced community and public life, 'relations can be regulated only... | |
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Antiquity had been a civilization of spectacle. 'To render accessible to a multitude of men the inspection of a small number of objects': this was the problem to which the architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there... 
