Modern society has become a society of the spectacle that centers on production and consumption of visual signs. The sign is no longer in its natural state but gets involved in the society of the spectacle with massiv...Modern society has become a society of the spectacle that centers on production and consumption of visual signs. The sign is no longer in its natural state but gets involved in the society of the spectacle with massive reproduction and representation. Literature review and semiotic principles were applied to summarize the landscape architecture of Disneyland. This study proposed the following three arguments by correlating Baudrillard's concept "hyperreality" with the landscape architecture of Disneyland: the disappearance of history in landscape architecture, simulacra reproduction in landscape architecture and the consumerism tendency in landscape architecture. The analysis of Disneyland's landscape architecture from a semiotic perspective will be a more profound examination of landscape architecture.展开更多
Teaching the Catholic religion in the University setting is very challenging especially now that we are living in thepostmodern world. In the context of the postmodern world, there can arise two questions： First; ＂H...Teaching the Catholic religion in the University setting is very challenging especially now that we are living in thepostmodern world. In the context of the postmodern world, there can arise two questions： First; ＂Having in mind achallenge of the postmodern world, that is incredulity to grand narratives, is it better to remove the Catholic religionin the curriculum since it is a form of a grand narrative？＂ And second; ＂Having in mind a phenomenon that thepostmodern world brings which is hyperreality, what happens to the teacher and to the student of the Catholicreligion in the classroom？＂ This paper will try to make sense of those questions by exploring first our postmodernworld through the lens of two great postmodern philosophers namely Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard.展开更多
文摘Modern society has become a society of the spectacle that centers on production and consumption of visual signs. The sign is no longer in its natural state but gets involved in the society of the spectacle with massive reproduction and representation. Literature review and semiotic principles were applied to summarize the landscape architecture of Disneyland. This study proposed the following three arguments by correlating Baudrillard's concept "hyperreality" with the landscape architecture of Disneyland: the disappearance of history in landscape architecture, simulacra reproduction in landscape architecture and the consumerism tendency in landscape architecture. The analysis of Disneyland's landscape architecture from a semiotic perspective will be a more profound examination of landscape architecture.
文摘Teaching the Catholic religion in the University setting is very challenging especially now that we are living in thepostmodern world. In the context of the postmodern world, there can arise two questions： First; ＂Having in mind achallenge of the postmodern world, that is incredulity to grand narratives, is it better to remove the Catholic religionin the curriculum since it is a form of a grand narrative？＂ And second; ＂Having in mind a phenomenon that thepostmodern world brings which is hyperreality, what happens to the teacher and to the student of the Catholicreligion in the classroom？＂ This paper will try to make sense of those questions by exploring first our postmodernworld through the lens of two great postmodern philosophers namely Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard.
