For most of the last half-century, the charge has been that American culture is stuck in adolescence. But adolescence, it turns out, was not the floor. Disney is leading the transformation, expanding into new age markets for maximum profit.
In Simulacra and Simulation, French theorist Jean Baudrillard once wrote that Disneyland is “presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.”
Baudrillard now says he was off base with that book, but it’s hard to write it off after the last decade.
In Simulacra and Simulation, French theorist Jean Baudrillard once wrote that Disneyland is “presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.”
If you want to experience a worked example of this…
Really didn’t expect that reference…
Baudrillard now says he was off base with that book, but it’s hard to write it off after the last decade.
If you want to experience a worked example of this…
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