Aimee Loiselle
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The Unspectacular
As a historian, I recognize certain movements in the past that have been very successful at both playing the spectacle and engaging the unspectacular aspects of formal power leverage. (The civil rights movement that built from 1896 with the NACWC to its s ... -
Decontextualized Protest
I really appreciate your examples of "repurposing" protest images. The uses of such images in the Pepsi commercial (and others) and music videos are particularly powerful to me. The protest images become spectacle in the media and their recyclin ... -
Public Demonstration vs. the Spectacle
I agree that public demonstrations, collective displays, and the discussions they generate can lead to intense shifts in organizing and economic-political efforts. For me, the notion of "spectacle" rests in the relationships between folks which ... -
Backstage Gesture
I am using and extending a framework I first saw in an article about the image that has become known as "Rosie the Riveter--We Can Do It!" The image has appeared on many mugs, posters, t-shirts, and iterations, but it began as part of a poster s ... -
Rosie and the Westinghouse Poster
I find it particularly interesting with the Rosie the Riveter image. The actual archival source of the first "Rosie" image was a Saturday Evening Post cover by Norman Rockwell. The Westinghouse poster with "We Can Do It" was not intend ... -
Celebrity Voice
Excellent post about the risks and results of celebrity voices in protests. The celebrity exists as a spectacle (as a persona separate from their basic existence) and makes the protest an extension of that spectacle. Even with the best of intentions and t ... -
Issues Not Spectacle
Excellent post and response. I do appreciate the idea of people organizing and getting coverage and sharing their own images. I still lean towards Debord's notion that "the spectacle" creates certain relationships between people, movements, ...