Appearances notwithstanding, the spectacular-democratic world organization now emerging runs the risk of being the worst tyranny human history has ever seen  and against which resistance and dissent will be ever more difficult – all the more so as, now more clearly than ever, this organisation will have as its task to see to the survival of humanity in an uninhabitable world.

Agamben, in his introduction to Debord's Commentaries on the Society of the Spectacle