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Disney World: Cities of Simulation as Postmodern Utopias By Ken Sanes About the Title Simulation: something which looks real but is not real. Postmodern: relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modern principles by reintroducing classical elements or carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes 后现代主义的 Utopia(/u?‘to?pi?/) an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. 乌托邦，理想国 Thomas More: Utopia(1561) Pre-reading Questions Will you visit Disney World? Will you take your children to Disney World? Why does Disney World have such a great appealing to its visitors worldwide? The positive effect of technology is obvious. Are you concerned about its side effects, if there are? Structure P1-4: The illusion, idealized reality and fantasies created by Disney. P5-10: the implications of modern technology in Disney World, which gives us “power over, and freedom from the world.” the irony and contradictions inherent in Disney World. P11: The warning of the negative aspects of Disney world: ultimate dependence on technology Question: What does Disney World create? Disney World creates the illusion for the visitors to see the park through the eyes of a child and creates a fictionalized version of a perfect world in which visitors are no longer limited by physical reality. Conform to: to obey a rule or reach the necessary stated standard, or to do things in a traditional way. Bring to life: make sth more real or exciting. Fictionalize: to write about a real event or character, but adding imaginary details and changing the real facts. 使…小说化 Containment (n.): restraint. defy [di‘fai]: v to refuse to obey or to act against a person, decision, law, situation, ect In various attractions: the four theme parks in Disney World On the thrill rides, they defy gravity, moving at speeds and in ways that seems to violate what common sense tells them should be possible. While riding the roller-coasters(云霄飞车) and o