Unit Two (IGE 6) Disney World Cities of Simulation as Postmodern Utopias
Unit Two (IGE 6) Disney World : Cities of Simulation as Postmodern Utopias
Topics for Discussion Can you give a fairly clear picture of Disney World?If yes,please describe it in vivid language. ■ What does Disney World evoke in you? What can we learn from Disney World? Please tell briefly the history or the development of Disney World. What's your Utopian dream?What's your comment on the creator of the Disneyland?
Topics for Discussion ◼ Can you give a fairly clear picture of Disney World? If yes, please describe it in vivid language. ◼ What does Disney World evoke in you? ◼ What can we learn from Disney World? ◼ Please tell briefly the history or the development of Disney World. ◼ What’s your Utopian dream? What’s your comment on the creator of the Disneyland?
About the Author Ken Sanes American columnist and editor ■The Boston Globe The San Diego Union-Tribune ■The Nation ■Newsday The San Francisco Chronicle ■The Boston Herald ☐Asia Times Online
About the Author Ken Sanes ◼ American columnist and editor ◼ The Boston Globe ◼ The San Diego Union-Tribune ◼ The Nation ◼ Newsday ◼ The San Francisco Chronicle ◼ The Boston Herald ◼ Asia Times Online
Utopia ■ Utopia is a name for an ideal society,taken from the title of a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system.The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempted to create an ideal society,and fictional societies portrayed in literature."Utopia"is sometimes used pejoratively,in reference to an unrealistic ideal that is impossible to achieve,and has spawned other concepts,most prominently dystopia
Utopia ◼ Utopia is a name for an ideal society, taken from the title of a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempted to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature. "Utopia" is sometimes used pejoratively, in reference to an unrealistic ideal that is impossible to achieve, and has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia
dystopia A dystopia is the vision of a society that is the opposite of utopia.A dystopian society is a state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad,characterized by human misery,poverty,oppression,violence,disease, and/or pollution.[
dystopia ◼ A dystopia is the vision of a society that is the opposite of utopia. A dystopian society is a state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad, characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution.[