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Here's a great article on slate.com about the "Industrial Wedding Complex" - how visual culture and capitalism combine to create and maintain and increase profits from promises of meeting specific kinds of images:

http://www.slate.com/id/2165581/

the highbrow: Examining culture and the arts.I Love You, Let's Have a Blowout: Doing time in the wedding-industrial complex.By Meghan O'Rourke
PostedSaturday, May 5, 2007, at 6:49 AM ET


I'm really curious about what other things people notice in their daily lives that are becoming more and more elaborate and expensive as (public) spectacles. Are there other (constructed)spaces, places, or events that require or encourage specific kinds of spectacles? The description and critical analysis of the article

Also consider this as an example of a great personal critical analysis. It's not the stereotypical critical essay, but it works well as an inside view of a cultural phenomenon/process.
Responses? Ideas?
Mindi


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