“It is interesting, for example, that in modernist discourse—within the social science disciplines as well as in popular culture—our urban areas, such as New York and Los Angeles, are considered as part of human reality, when Disneyland or Universal Studios grounds are considered as “fantasy” lands.…”Tagged: Infrastructure of Control, Social Engineering
“What makes Las Vegas hyperreal is that its hype and the simulations it presents are increasingly becoming represented in the rest of our cities, thus becoming part of our everyday reality.”Tagged: Urbanization
“The paradox here, especially when considered within the confines of modern discourse, is that these are people living “real” lives in “real” places fifty weeks out of the year with feelings of loss of self, and find it during the two weeks where almost every experience they have is pre-determined by…”