In order to describe the spectacle, its fonnation, its functions, and the forces that work against it, it is necessary to make some artificial distinctions. In analyzing the spectacle we are obliged to a certain extent to use the spectacle s own language, in the sense that we have to move through the methodological terrain of the society that expresses itself in the spectacle. For the spectacle is botrn the meaning and the agenda of our particular socio-economic formation. It is the historical moment in which we are caught.