I was reading earlier about the wikipedia page for "The Society of Spectacle" and this might be relevant here:
> The Society of the Spectacle is a critique of contemporary consumer culture and commodity fetishism. Before the term "globalization" was popularized, Debord was arguing about issues such as class alienation, cultural homogenization, and the mass media.
Also:
> "The spectacle is not a collection of images," Debord writes, "rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images."