ANTH 3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Microsoft Powerpoint, Mcworld, Music Of Hawaii
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Strolling the strip, visiting disney, and embracing the body. Powerpoint: spectacle consumption: de-differentiation of social realms, the problematizing of signification. Connection between sign and real" breaks down. Powerpoint: postmodern tourism and commodity consumption: consumption of images, simulation and simulacra, experiencing multiple versions of possible realities. Powerpoint: postmodern commodity consumption: panic consumption, spectacle consumption, postmodern tourist sites as places of panic consumption and spectacle consumption. More pliable, rich, and brilliant than the real" and that comes at the cost of dissolving continuity and authenticity . The tradition of invention" las vegas as simulacra: the strip" images of rome, venice, egypt, paris, etc. Not a model of external reality signs create/invent a completely new experience (of rome", Venice", egypt", paris": example: caesars palace roman shopping district. Panic consumption: importance of commodity consumption in postmodern tourism tourist sites as shopping malls, example: west edmonton mall.