Posts Tagged ‘consumerism’

An article summarising the Heterotopia of Walt Disney World presentation that I gave in October 2009 is now published in the February edition of the Philosophy Now magazine. The article is part of a series of papers about ‘continental tales’ and the concept of narrative in Continental philosophy.

The video of the Philosophy and Management Pecha Kucha presentation given by Laurent Ledoux at Recyclart is now online.

Find here more details about how the pictures and Polaroids were curated.

Thanks to Jefolo, Chris Jordan, kide, QundL, Benjamin Sandri who generously let us use their photographs and to Nancy L. Stockdale, Thomas van der Vlis and Compton.m who published their Polaroids under a Creative Commons license.

The slides of the lecture I gave few weeks ago can now be consulted here. I used the example of Walt Disney World to illustrate the concepts of Utopia, Heterotopia, Postmodernisn and Consumerism. It would have taken me two hours to explain all the relations between them and the theme park. My presentation was limited to half of that time and only a subset of the slides were used for the Philosophy for All lecture. Don’t hesitate to leave your feedback. I hope that the slides are still understandable even without any comments.