Critiquing the spectacle requires using the spectacle’s own language

Evidence

In order to describe the spectacle, its formation, its functions, and the forces that work against it, it is necessary to make some artificial distinctions. In analyzing the spectacle we are obliged to a certain extent to use the spectacle’s own language, in the sense that we have to operate on the methodological terrain of the society that expresses itself in the spectacle. For the spectacle is both the meaning and the agenda of our particular socio-economic formation. — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 22

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: every critic of a totalizing system must argue in that system’s tongue — what does that do to the argument’s own truth claims?