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Figure 1: Entrance to the original Disneyland amusement park in Anaheim, CA, circa 1950s. Baudrillard writes: "In this imaginary world the only phantasmagoria is in the inherent warmth and affection of the crowd, and in that sufficiently excessive number of gadgets used there to specifically maintain the multitudinous effect. The constrast with the absolute solitude of the parking lot-a veritable concentration camp-is total." (Simulations 23-4) From imaginaryworld.com/ dtour01.html Figure 2: Plaque at the entrance to Disneyland. From answers.com/topic/disneyland-plaque-jpg. Figure 3: Aerial photograph of Disneyland and its surrounding metropolis. Baudrillard writes: "Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation." (Simulations 25) From www.usc.edu/isd/ archives/la/disneyland/ 1 In a 1990 interview with Nicholas

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