Imaginariums in Popular Culture
In The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the thousands of years old mystic Doctor Parnassus runs a nomadic theater troupe where people are led through a mirror that takes them into their deepest subconscious world, where their souls are put to the test.
In television show "Community", Annie comes to live with Troy and Abed only to find her bedroom is a blanket fort in the loungeroom, as Troy and Abed have dedicated the second room of the apartment to an 'Dreamatorium'. The boys frequently visit the space, a blank empty room covered with computer-graphic wireframe-esque strips, to 'unweird' themselves.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth. But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”
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—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)