Flipped Out: The End of the American Bungalow
...s such; nor does it seek to produce or manage one. As we have seen, casino design follows what one leading firm calls the “immersion paradigm,” holding players in a desubjectified state of uninterrupted motion so as to galvanize, channel, and profit from what the academic consultants quoted earlier called the “experiential affect.” With no walls or doors with which to escape the gaze of our fellow housemates and bright lights and white walls every...