The New Spectacle: How effective is mobile Augmented Reality as tool for the manifestation of dissent?

Hordes of Networked AR Creatives deploy Viral Virtual Media to overlay, then overwhelm closed Social Systems lodged in Physical Hierarchies (Manifest.AR 2011). The above quote taken from the Manifest.AR’s (2011) collective manifesto demonstrates the power its founders attributed to augmented reality technology (AR); in particular, its ability to disrupt closed physical hierarchies through a form of technologically induced ‘détournement’. Détournement is a stratagem devised, or at least, coined, by Debord (1967) as a method to resist and undermine the pervading spectacle of capitalist society “by challenging the meaning of something taken for granted”.

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Liam Noah Jefferies

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 122-123

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[0001]Leeds Art University

Blenheim Walk, Leeds, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.24

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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M. Shwarek 2014 Augmented Reality Activism V. Geroimenko (ed.) Augmented Reality Art Springer International Switzerland
H. A. Tran 2015 Urban Space Production in Transition: The cases of the new urban areas of Hanoi

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[1] G. Debord 1967 The Society of Spectacle Rebel Press London. New edition: 1992

[2] M. DevereuxD. Littlefield 2017 A literature review on the privatisation of public space. Project Report, Report UWE. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk (retrieved 26 March 2018

[3] S. Graham 2001 The spectre of the splintering metropolis Cities 18 6:365 368

[4] AR Manifest 2011 The AR Art Manifesto http://armanifesto.wordpress.com (retrieved 26 January 2018

[5] D. Mitchell, 1995 The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85 1:115

[6] M. Shwarek 2014 Augmented Reality Activism V. Geroimenko (ed.) Augmented Reality Art Springer International Switzerland

[7] H. A. Tran 2015 Urban Space Production in Transition: The cases of the new urban areas of Hanoi

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