In ‘From Plans and Situated Actions’ Lucy Suchman is proposing us situated action which is about finding meanings in action and understanding the portrayal of those actions. To illustrate, she provocatively critiques the human and machine interaction and the lack of machine intelligence at times making poor gestures towards the user end of communication. The programs are thus being systems interacting with people but are not expert in functioning due to lack of self-governance and which at times need some kind of human input for better performance and interaction.

Lucy Suchman Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle is an essay which elaborates society in the realm of false reality. Spectacle revives the past in the human eye and lets the society live a tomorrow based on the representational images of the past. It is about materialism and advertising’s artificial dominance over the minds of people where consumerism sets its pace. Debord is trying to point out the fact that we humans are irrationally just working towards a certain system grown with the idea of consumerism holding to the clauses of past economy. Social relations are mediated and governed by mere products or commodities which aim for more of a modern capitalist state of living as he rightly points out ‘The spectacle is the other side of the money: it is the general abstract equivalent of all commodities.’ So as, Debord in ‘Preliminary problem in constructing a situation’ also is implying that time plays a major role in creation of situation as in spectacle. The fact that having the situation foreseen in mind when working on an objective which helps in being aware of the possible causes and consequences holds true.