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860dda3 Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. death life simulacra post-modernism end-of-the-world cinema armageddon Roger Zelazny
f40e060 "Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [Utopias, play of space]): digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality. Certainly. But this masks something else and this "ideological" blanket functions as a cover for a simulation of the third order: Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle." disneyland simulacra simulation Jean Baudrillard
c38089a As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality. simulacra page-196 Adam Leith Gollner