Gallows on the Square is a collection of two essays written during my second academic year at WdKA. The project emerged from a series of assignments and exercises completed across that period. The essays offer an analytical engagement with Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, specifically on his sixth chapter, in which Debord introduces the concept of ‘spectacular time.’ Because the Situationist principles and Debord’s arguments can be demanding to interpret, I turned to Charlie Chaplin’s 1931 film City Lights as a parallel. In doing so, I found that Chaplin's characters strangely mirror several of the phenomena described in Debord’s account of Spectacular Time.