18. Sidenote) Ce n'est pas rien
Map & Territory Relation
• Perception always intercedes between reality and
ourselves
• What is on the paper map is a representation of the
retinal representation of the man who made the map
• An infinite series of maps
• The Diary of Tristam Shandy, supertasks, NP
66. B) The Biggest Party Ever
Predicaments within Social Armageddon
• Who do you talk to?
• Who do you follow?
• How do you act in a room devoid of social context?
67. B) The Biggest Party Ever
• Character limits enforce transitory snippets
• Does not increase Social Capital
• In six years, would any of it make sense?
81. C) Looking glass, darkly
"Welcome to the
Hollywood that never
was and always will be."
- Michael Eisner Disney Hollywood Studios Orlando - 1989
82. C) Looking glass, darkly
Heterotopia
Capable of juxtaposing several spaces that are in
themselves incompatible. Like a zoo, or a mirror.
To dumb it down, absolutely real and unreal.
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87. C) Looking glass, darkly
Simulacrum leads to
Hyperreality
United States is heaven, history is a decoration,
Colonialism was fun and those other people are
cute, it would just be nice if they were more like us.
88. "We not only enjoy a
perfect imitation, we also
enjoy the conviction that
imitation has reached its
apex and afterwards reality
will always be inferior to
it."
90. C) Zucking with You
Gilded Pastiche
• “Ifwe only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but
we want to be happier than other people, which is
almost always difficult, since we think them happier
than they are.”
• Opposite of the news, hence the “Like” button
• Bullet-pointed, Disneyified lives
91. B2) Zucking with You
We will look back and actually believe and
internalize that all these events, and just these
events, happened?
93. D) A Resolve
• Real thoughts, memories and ideas
• Not trumped down to bullet lists of activities
• We can be comfortable with being ourselves, whether
ideal or otherwise
• Encourages and enables an open dialog for all of its
members
or however long, time isn’t the issue here, even though it totally is\n
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blindly and selfishly have to rewrite history\n
I had a dream the other night that I was at a party with everyone I have ever met\n
This situation doesn’t seem like a particularly troublesome one especially if you have seen Sixteen Candles or Can’t Hardly Wait\n
this ideal party presents many problems, problems that go way beyond which Daft Punk album to play...\nThe correct answer here is probably Alive 2007. However, Discovery is in close second. This is a conversation for a later time.\nTake a moment to picture yourself at this party\n
Walking around the party you would see your uncle standing elbow to elbow with\n
your best friend, who is dancing with the girl from blue bottle with the goatee\n
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In another room, this douchebag from high school is playing sex dice\n
while your aunts sip a bottle of Frangellico\n
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Meanwhile, your boss is playing Wii Tennis with your neighbor\n
and the girl you had a crush on in college\n
This fact is particularly problematic for me, as that girl is a raging alcoholic. There is no doubt that this would cause a lot of tension with the fellow partygoers. However, this may just be the least of my concerns.\n
And this whole thing goes on but it doesn’t get much better\n
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and your ex-girlfriend is eating frosting with your best friend\n
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I went to disneyworld in 2005\n
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Displays an astounding talent for mimicry.\n
If you've ever been outside America, this is mostly just insulting.\n
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Half the pavilions have no cultural content at all. The Morocco complex is just souvenir stores selling carpets and fezzes.\n
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Suburban tourists view travel abroad as basically a chance to shop for regionally themed trinkets, which is perfect\n
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"the place that I occupy when I look at myself in the glass at once absolutely real and absolutely unreal"\n
1) see space in the mirror\n2) see myself in the mirror\n3) deduct that you are absent from your place\n4) As a virtual person in the mirror, I see myself in real space\nrecurse\n
Cliff & New Orleans\n
Watering down facts, sanitizing and restating\n\n
Real birds + fake sounds of birds, it is difficult to tell what is real\n\n
simulucra, likeness of an object without it’s contents or weight\n
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Facebook and Twitter are the McDonald’s drive-thrus of social communication. We all need to sit at a table and eat some plants.\n