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Disneyland with the Death Penalty

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"Disneyland with the Death Penalty" is a 4,500-word article about Singapore written by William Gibson. [1]

85 relations: Anaphylaxis, Article (publishing), Asian values, Atlanta, Authoritarianism, Black market, Bohemianism, California, Cannabis (drug), Capital punishment, Cayce Pollard, Censorship in Singapore, Channel 4, City-state, Commodity fetishism, Consumerism, Corporatism, Counterculture, Creative Review, Daily Mirror, Disneyland, Distrust That Particular Flavor, Economic growth, Edward Soja, Founding of modern Singapore, Golf course, Government of Singapore, Heathrow Airport, Heroin, History of Singapore, Information economy, Japanese occupation of Singapore, Jet lag, Johannes van Damme, John Phillips (zoologist), Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon Walled City, Laurie Anderson, Lee Kuan Yew, List of urban theorists, Malaysia, Massage parlor, Megacorporation, Modernity, Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, National University of Singapore, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, One-party state, Paternalism, Peter Ludlow, ..., Phenomenology (philosophy), Postmodernity, Psychogeography, R. W. Apple Jr., Reason (magazine), Rem Koolhaas, Rotterdam, S,M,L,XL, Simulacra and Simulation, Singapore, Singapore Changi Airport, South China Morning Post, Southeast Asia, Steven Poole, Technocracy, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, The Boston Globe, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New York Times International Edition, The Observer, The Straits Times, The Washington Post, TheGuardian.com, Underground culture, Urban planning in Singapore, Victorian era, Virtual reality, Western world, William Gibson, Wired (magazine), Zürich, Zero History, Zero tolerance. Expand index (35 more) »

Anaphylaxis

Anaphylaxis is a serious allergic reaction that is rapid in onset and may cause death.

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Article (publishing)

An article is a written work published in a print or electronic medium.

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Asian values

Asian values was a political ideology of the 1990s, which defined elements of society, culture and history common to the nations of Southeast and East Asia.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Authoritarianism

Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms.

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Black market

A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or transaction that has some aspect of illegality or is characterized by some form of noncompliant behavior with an institutional set of rules.

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Bohemianism

Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people and with few permanent ties.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant intended for medical or recreational use.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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Cayce Pollard

Cayce Pollard is the fictional protagonist of William Gibson's 2003 novel Pattern Recognition.

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Censorship in Singapore

Censorship in Singapore mainly targets political, racial and religious issues, as defined by out-of-bounds markers.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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City-state

A city-state is a sovereign state, also described as a type of small independent country, that usually consists of a single city and its dependent territories.

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Commodity fetishism

In Karl Marx's critique of political economy, commodity fetishism is the perception of the social relationships involved in production, not as relationships among people, but as economic relationships among the money and commodities exchanged in market trade.

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Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.

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Corporatism

Corporatism is the organization of a society by corporate groups and agricultural, labour, military or scientific syndicates and guilds on the basis of their common interests.

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Counterculture

A counterculture (also written counter-culture) is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.

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Creative Review

Creative Review is a monthly magazine targeted on the commercial arts and design scene.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.

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Disneyland

Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened on July 17, 1955.

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Distrust That Particular Flavor

Distrust That Particular Flavor is a collection of non-fiction writing by the speculative fiction author William Gibson.

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Economic growth

Economic growth is the increase in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy over time.

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Edward Soja

Edward William Soja (1940–2015) was a self-described "urbanist," a noted postmodern political geographer and urban theorist on the planning faculty at UCLA, where he was Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, and the London School of Economics.

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Founding of modern Singapore

The establishment of a British trading post in Singapore in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles led to its founding as a British colony in 1824.

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Golf course

A golf course is the grounds where the game of golf is played.

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Government of Singapore

The Government of Singapore is defined by the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore to mean the Executive branch of government, which is made up of the President and the Cabinet of Singapore.

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Heathrow Airport

Heathrow Airport (also known as London Heathrow) is a major international airport in London, United Kingdom.

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Heroin

Heroin, also known as diamorphine among other names, is an opioid most commonly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.

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History of Singapore

The written history of Singapore may date back to the third century.

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Information economy

Information economy is an economy with an increased emphasis on informational activities and information industry.

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Japanese occupation of Singapore

The Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II took place from 1942 to 1945, following the fall of the British colony on 15 February 1942.

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Jet lag

Jet lag is a physiological condition which results from alterations to the body's circadian rhythms caused by rapid long-distance trans-meridian (east–west or west–east) travel.

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Johannes van Damme

Johannes van Damme (1 June 1935 – 23 September 1994) was a Dutch engineer and businessman executed in Singapore for drug trafficking.

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John Phillips (zoologist)

Professor John Guest Phillips FRS FZS (13 June 1933 – 14 March 1987) was an eminent biologist.

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Kai Tak Airport

Kai Tak International Airport was the international airport of Hong Kong from 1925 until 1998.

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Kowloon Walled City

Kowloon Walled City was a largely ungoverned, densely populated settlement in Kowloon City in Hong Kong.

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Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

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Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew GCMG CH SPMJ (16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), commonly referred to by his initials LKY, was the first Prime Minister of Singapore, governing for three decades.

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List of urban theorists

This is a list of urban theorists notable in their field, in alphabetical order.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.

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Massage parlor

A massage parlor (American English), or massage parlour (British English), is a place where massage services are provided.

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Megacorporation

Megacorporation, mega-corporation, or megacorp, a term popularized by William Gibson, derives from the combination of the prefix mega- with the word corporation.

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Modernity

Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era), as well as the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of Renaissance, in the "Age of Reason" of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century "Enlightenment".

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Motion Picture Association of America film rating system

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) film rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences based on its content.

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National University of Singapore

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is an autonomous research university in Singapore.

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Office for Metropolitan Architecture

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is a Dutch architectural firm based in Rotterdam, founded in 1975 by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Greek architect Elia Zenghelis, along with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis.

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One-party state

A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system, or single-party system is a type of state in which one political party has the right to form the government, usually based on the existing constitution.

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Paternalism

Paternalism is action limiting a person's or group's liberty or autonomy which is intended to promote their own good.

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Peter Ludlow

Peter Ludlow (born January 16, 1957), who also writes under the pseudonym Urizenus Sklar, is an American philosopher of language.

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Phenomenology (philosophy)

Phenomenology (from Greek phainómenon "that which appears" and lógos "study") is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness.

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Postmodernity

Postmodernity (post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity.

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Psychogeography

Psychogeography is an exploration of urban environments that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting".

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R. W. Apple Jr.

Raymond Walter Apple Jr. (November 20, 1934 – October 4, 2006), known to all as Johnny Apple but bylined as R.W. Apple Jr., was an associate editor at The New York Times, where he wrote on a variety of subjects, most notably politics, travel, and food.

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Reason (magazine)

Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.

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Rem Koolhaas

Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (born 17 November 1945) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

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Rotterdam

Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, in South Holland within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea.

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S,M,L,XL

S,M,L,XL is a book by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, edited by Jennifer Sigler, with photography by Hans Werlemann.

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Simulacra and Simulation

Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation) is a 1981 philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard, in which he seeks to examine the relationships among reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media that are involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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Singapore Changi Airport

Singapore Changi Airport, or simply Changi Airport, is the major civilian airport for Singapore, and one of the largest transportation hubs in Southeast Asia.

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South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post (also known as SCMP or The Post), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong English-language newspaper and Hong Kong's newspaper of record.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.

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Steven Poole

Steven Poole (born 1972) is a British author and journalist.

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Technocracy

Technocracy is a proposed system of governance where decision-makers are selected on the basis of their expertise in their areas of responsibility, particularly scientific knowledge.

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Tharman Shanmugaratnam

Tharman Shanmugaratnam (தர்மன் சண்முகரத்தினம்; born 25 February 1957) is a Singaporean politician and economist.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New York Times International Edition

The New York Times International Edition is an English-language newspaper printed at 38 sites throughout the world and sold in more than 160 countries and territories.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Straits Times

The Straits Times is an English-language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore currently owned by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH).

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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TheGuardian.com

TheGuardian.com, formerly known as Guardian.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited, is a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group.

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Underground culture

Underground culture, or simply underground, is a term to describe various alternative cultures which either consider themselves different from the mainstream of society and culture, or are considered so by others.

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Urban planning in Singapore

Urban planning in Singapore has formulated and guided its physical development from the day:Singapore was founded in 1819 as a British colony to the developed, independent country it is today.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is an interactive computer-generated experience taking place within a simulated environment, that incorporates mainly auditory and visual, but also other types of sensory feedback like haptic.

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Western world

The Western world refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe and the Americas.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Zürich

Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich.

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Zero History

Zero History is a novel by William Gibson published in 2010.

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Zero tolerance

A zero-tolerance policy is one which imposes strict punishment for infractions of a stated rule, with the intention of eliminating undesirable conduct.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Penalty

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