Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America, which is Disneyland (just as prisons are there to conceal the fact that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, which is carceral).
Friday, February 13, 2009
Banal Omnipresence
Fridays are now Quotable Fridays. We start of with a tidbit from Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation. Hat tip to Bhaskara for recommending I read it, though I can't claim to have understood it all.
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"Whence the characteristic hysteria of our times: that of the production and reproduction of the real. The other production, that of values and commodities, of the belle epoque of political economy, has for a long time had no specific meaning. What every society looks for in continuing to produce, and to overproduce, is to restore the real that escapes it. "
ReplyDeleteEr, that was me by the way. I forgot to log in… hehe. :)
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