• 1) How do we define resistance? Does it carry a negative or positive connotation?

• 2) Can a government efficiently control culture? Especially in such an inter-connected world?

• 3)“ . . . “in the society of the spectacle, the student was the ‘perfect spectator’”, and which went on to call for a new relationship to the world, one in which not just students, but anyone “who has no power over his own life and knows it” strove “to create a new situation” in which that absence of power was no longer true – a new situation in which everyone grabbed hold of the conditions of their own lives and “détourned” them.” Pg. 167

• Mitchell uses the Strasbourg revolt as one of the examples to explain the topic of spectacle and resistance. Due to the fact that this book was published in the year 2000, in your opinion, what recent student protests or strikes (both local and global) would Mitchell use to illustrate this topic?

• 4) “ . . . the contest over ‘culture’ is a contest over space – over its control, its production, over who is allowed in and who is kept out, over what constitutes a pure space filled only with acceptable behaviors, . . .” Pg. 170

• http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/russian-nationalists-say-nyet-to-foreign-words/

GEOG 347- Mitchell Ch. 6 Resistance and Spectacle

Mitchell Ch.6: Resistance and Spectacle

• Defining Resistance• Tactics (de Certeau) vs. Strategy (Gramsci)• Example of Tiananmen Square• Resistance vs. Transgression• Situationist International (Guy Debord)

“Society of the Spectacle”• Example of rebellion in Paris, May 1968