Hyperreal cities need imaginary parks to feed the energy of the real

Evidence

Disneyland is not the only one, however. Enchanted Village, Magic Mountain, Marine World: Los Angeles is surrounded by these imaginary stations that feed reality, the energy of the real to a city whose mystery is precisely that of no longer being anything but a network of incessant, unreal circulation - a city of incredible proportions but without space, without dimension. As much as electrical and atomic power stations, as much as cinema studios, this city, which is no longer anything but an immense scenario and a perpetual pan shot, needs this old imaginary like a sympathetic nervous system made up of childhood signals and faked phantasms. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 51

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fictional urban competence models are emulated by real city dwellers; Hyperreal civilization must recycle its own lost faculties and imaginary. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 52; Hyperreality is the totalizing implosion of commodity and culture into circulation — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 226 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Hyperreal civilization must recycle its own lost faculties and imaginary. #expands (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 52
• Production’s hidden purpose is restoring the real through hyperreal resemblance #corroborates (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 85
• Actualized forms discharge their potential energy to free future possibilities #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1129
• Hyperreality is the totalizing implosion of commodity and culture into circulation #expands (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 226
• Fictional urban competence models are emulated by real city dwellers #qualifies (0.72)