Memorials and Spectacles: The Anti-Dr. King Monument

This week’s dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington, D.C. was a quintessential display of what Guy Debord called “spectacle.” In his words, what we prefer to refer to as “media” is really the communication of “orders” whereby “those who give them are also those who tell us what [to] think of them.” These…

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The Corporate King Memorial and The Burial of a Movement

Dr. King and the liberation movement he represents will again suffer a brutal blow this week when all are permanently entombed under the violent euphemism of “memorial.”  The dedication of this $120 million stone sculpture is to be a national tribute to a man whose entire body of work was designed to destroy the very…

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