Putin’s ‘Society Of The Spectacle’
russiapost.info
Ilya Budraitskis writes that in Putin’s Russia, the mass media has completely gone from being a function of society to a form of power over it. In alliance with the authoritarian regime, it has made the country a real “society of the spectacle,” the totality of which would horrify even the most radical critics of Western capitalism.

“In alliance with the authoritarian regime, the [Russian] mass media has made the country a real ‘society of the spectacle,’”, says Ilya Budraitskis, a political and social theorist previously based in Moscow. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar with the Program in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley in the US.

  • taladar@feddit.deEnglish
    18·
    9 months ago

    Wasn’t that always the case in authoritarian countries of all kinds since the invention of mass media?

      • zephyreks@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        It’s the case in pretty much every country, but it’s particularly bad in countries that have a lot of power and minimal oversight (Russia, the US, China, India, even the UK).