2025

The spectacle [...] naturally finds vision to be the privileged human sense which the sense of touch was for other epochs; the most abstract, the most mystifiable sense corresponds to the generalized abstraction of present-day society.

Guy Debord
Society of Spectacle (1967)

This paper identifies theoretical and graphical parallels between two unlikely accomplices: the mid-20th century multidisciplinary movement Situationist International, and developments in the psychological study of eye movements. Both the Situationist movement and eye movement analysis approach the ostensible objectivity of the visible world through a deconstructed and personalized interpretation made possible by our perception. This essay provides diagrams of eye-tracking studies inspired by early Situationist graphics, highlighting the piecemeal and constructive nature of our perception.