ETHNOGRAPHIC FRAGMENTS IN POSTMODERN SPACES

Various authors interested in postmodernism suggest that Las Vegas is a particularly strategic site that promotes and even exaggerates a pos tmodern logic and ''structure of feeling.'' The present ethnographic f ragments seek to evoke this postmodern logic through its subjectively experienced structure of feeling. The approach used to produce these f ragments consists of juxtaposing postmodern insights; unstructured int erviews with, and interventions by, a wide variety of individuals enco untered in Las Vegas; and self-reflexive observations in the rapidly d isappearing space separating the mediascape from the everyday.