having an "ascetic scale", a ladder, maybe, at hand. Benjamin's concept has been linked to Guy Debord's 1967 book The Society of the Spectacle. Translations by Harry Zohn at marxists.org, published by Schocken/Random House, ed. by Hannah Arendt; In Walter Benjamin Illuminations. Some excerpts quoted in See also Aestheticization of violence Art for art's sake The arts and politicsThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'' Relations of production References Concepts in aesthetics Fascism Political terminology