Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

Blog and project archive about media theory, science fiction theory, and creative coding

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Time-Memory-Experience (part 3 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger

April 24th, 2012 in the categories: Rosalind Krauss, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin

The Optical Unconscious in Walter Benjamin’s writing appears first in „A little history of photography“ (1931), which Benjamin wrote a few years prior to the famous Artwork essay.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 2 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger

April 24th, 2012 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0, Media Studies

ARTstor hence differs from a traditional archive, altering the traditional functions of an archive to become also a social media in which the material is constantly reworked, newly sorted, and transformed.
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Time, Memory, Experience (part 1 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger

April 24th, 2012 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0, Media Studies

My project is to revise the theories and concepts that arose in the advent of the Internet in the early 1990s, when the Internet emerged from a blank canvas and served as a projection for dreams about utopian cyberspace. Have these theories of New Media and New Technologies stood the test of time?