Image-and-reality separation is internal to one unified social totality

Evidence

Separation is itself an integral part of the unity of this world, of a global social practice split into reality and image. The social practice confronted by an autonomous spectacle is at the same time the real totality which contains that spectacle. But the split within this totality mutilates it to the point that the spectacle seems to be its goal. — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 18

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Separation is not a rupture between two worlds but a wound within a single totality — the dialectical move that makes the whole argument possible.