Be Our Guest or Welcome Foolish Mortals? Disney’s Invitation to Play and the Delusion/Illusion of Hyperreal, Immersive Documents

This paper playfully appropriates the metaphor of delusional states to frame a discussion hyperreal documents present in Disney theme parks and resorts. A brief overview literature on delusion individuals transitions into collective formation positive illusions introduce concept play. The conceptual framework play culture, or ludics, is presented understand cultural production meaning, which further described relation park design negotiation experiences. situated document theory explicate intentionality designers indexicality guests. Aspects experiences as transactions are elucidated alignment with phenomenology, touching implications for interpreting meaning authenticity environments characterized by simulacra. ends an outline research agenda involving parks, immersive documents.