“Já não existe ágora”. Sobre a crítica situacionista à expropriação da comunicação como crítica de arquitetura

Abstract

Based on Debord’s Commentaries on the Society of the Spectacle (1988) and Constant’s artistics production (1960-1985), I analyze moments in the trajectories, in which it is shown that the critique of the experience of expropriated communication cannot be made without a continued critique of the urban experience. In the integrated spectacular, separation is a condition for sustaining social configurations. In the arrangement of the society of the spectacle, the one who listens never replies, which is equivalent to a passive behavior in contemplation. This impoverishment of communication corresponds to the impoverishment of life under the spectacle’s domination; nevertheless, to the communication that takes place in the radical praxis of dialogue lies the possibility of resistance to the spectacular power.