http://curatedmatter.org/2009/11/10/the-heterotopia-of-walt-disney-world-slides-now-online/ Curator of artefact based exhibitions, catalyser of social innovation. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:05:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://curatedmatter.org/2009/11/10/the-heterotopia-of-walt-disney-world-slides-now-online/comment-page-1/#comment-960 bruchansky Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:26:04 +0000 http://curatedmatter.org/?p=481#comment-960 Hi Alex, thanks for your comment! By critical, do you mean severe or do you mean analytical? I hope that my presentation is a relatively analytical approach to the Walt Disney World phenomena. But it is not as severe as it could have easily led. It is because I don't think that the cultural dynamics I describe in the slides are to be avoided. Walt Disney World is just a logical part in the way a consumerist society works, and consumerism is a very appealing social proposition. What I'm severe about is the incapacity to create different models and heterotopias that can have their own parallel existence. I'm strongly against the systematic disneyfication of spaces and meanings. I don't want so much to make a case against the Walt Disney World phenomena, but instead to encourage creative alternatives, to remind ourselves the many other ways to narrate our existence. Hi Alex, thanks for your comment! By critical, do you mean severe or do you mean analytical? I hope that my presentation is a relatively analytical approach to the Walt Disney World phenomena. But it is not as severe as it could have easily led. It is because I don’t think that the cultural dynamics I describe in the slides are to be avoided. Walt Disney World is just a logical part in the way a consumerist society works, and consumerism is a very appealing social proposition. What I’m severe about is the incapacity to create different models and heterotopias that can have their own parallel existence. I’m strongly against the systematic disneyfication of spaces and meanings. I don’t want so much to make a case against the Walt Disney World phenomena, but instead to encourage creative alternatives, to remind ourselves the many other ways to narrate our existence.

]]> http://curatedmatter.org/2009/11/10/the-heterotopia-of-walt-disney-world-slides-now-online/comment-page-1/#comment-959 Alex Wade Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:38:12 +0000 http://curatedmatter.org/?p=481#comment-959 Hi Christophe, came here afgter you sent me the email regarding your Semiotics of Videogames exhibition. Very interesting stuff on Disneyland - just wondering why you didn't take a moe overtly critical viewpoint of the phenomona of Disney? Hi Christophe, came here afgter you sent me the email regarding your Semiotics of Videogames exhibition. Very interesting stuff on Disneyland – just wondering why you didn’t take a moe overtly critical viewpoint of the phenomona of Disney?

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