In the reading the “Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation”, Guy Debord explains a situation is a population or series of people or objects that behavior in a certain manner in time and a space. These temporal moments of situations have each participant understand their agendas or desires in the moment of time and space which in turn provides feedback or input into a large organizational system of the situation. To move the situation in this time-space environment, Devord states that there must be a leader and a subset of followers which in relation can not become permanent. These situations question reality in a way that theatre and cinema was able to explore in the past. This is similar to how Debord argues that architecture and our ability to construct environments has replaced religion and its interpretation of our natural and built world.

In a second Debord piece from the text “The Society of the Spectacle”, he speaks to the situation of a spectacle we oh he argues that life has turned into a reproduction through anonymous media sand mediums. This reproduction is defined as a spectacle which is a superficial image and deception of reality. The origin of the spectacle according to Debord is the loss of unity in the world or divisiveness. Spectacle is communication that reunites separated populations, but reunites hierarchy and division between said populations. Further Debord states, “Spectacle within society corresponds to a concrete manufacture of alienation” showing how separation unities society between reality and image to create a truth of falsehood in situations.

As a continuation of thought from the idea of the image in culture translated into a conceived notion of reality, Lucy Schman in the text “From Plans and Situated Actions” explains about “acting”. She states that acting in a situations environment is a learned ability. This ability varies and is designed for particular cultures and desires. For example she speaks about the analytical thinking of European society to Turkish culture. She desires Europeans as analytical and Turks as explorational. While the Europeans used maps to traverse new areas during the colonial period, Turks indiscriminately moved from one area to another. However, contemporary our society is joined together through globalization and merges these separations into a single mode of “acting”. Schman explains that while we act like the Turks we communicate in ways of the Europeans. Overall, she views situated actions as “circumstances of our actions are never fully anticipated and continuously change around us… Plans are best viewed as a weak resource for what is primarily ad hoc activity. Reconstructed in retrospect, plans systematically filter our precisely the particularity of detail that characterizes situated actions, in favor of those actions that can be been to accord with the plan.”