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FUAT FIRAT Quotes

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“What makes Las Vegas hyperreal is that its hype and the simulations it presents are increasingly becoming represented in the rest of our cities, thus becoming part of our everyday reality.”
— FUAT FIRAT, The Meanings and Messages of Las Vegas: The Present of our Future
Tagged: Urbanization
“The paradox here, especially when considered within the confines of modern discourse, is that these are people living “real” lives in “real” places fifty weeks out of the year with feelings of loss of self, and find it during the two weeks where almost every experience they have is pre-determined by a commercial interest.”
— FUAT FIRAT, every experience they have is pre-determined by a commercial interest
“It is interesting, for example, that in modernist discourse—within the social science disciplines as well as in popular culture—our urban areas, such as New York and Los Angeles, are considered as part of human reality, when Disneyland or Universal Studios grounds are considered as “fantasy” lands. A closer look at the construction of these two types of spaces, however, simply discloses that, in fact, both are humanly constructed, despite the fact that in one case there is greater control of a singular organizational authority (e.g., Disney), and in the other the authority is somewhat more diffuse, having to legitimize itself through dominant political processes (e.g., Los Angeles).”
— FUAT FIRAT, in one case there is greater control of a singular organizational authority
Tagged: Infrastructure of Control, Social Engineering
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