Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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The Artistic Philosophy of Heidegger, by Lulu Zhao

March 31st, 2016 in the categories: Folkwang Heterotopia Masters Students: Philosophy

Heidegger thought that the essence of art is not material. In the history of western aesthetics, whether art is defined from the angle of material properties, or summarized from the perspective of perceptual variety, or analyzed from the view of the relationship between material and form, people cannot grasp the origin of the artwork and essence of art.
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“The Human Scale”: Gedanken zur Stadtarchitektur, von Vivianne Pärli

March 29th, 2016 in the categories: Folkwang Heterotopia Masters Students: Architecture

Als ich den Film „The Human Scale“ von Andreas Dalsgaard gesehen habe, konnte ich mir eine ganz neue Meinung über Architektur bilden. In dem Film wird das Werk des 1936 in Dänemark geborenen Architekten und Landschaftsplaners Jan Gehl anhand von vielen Beispielen seiner internationalen Arbeit gezeigt.
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8 metamathematical notions to serve a HyperModern World, by Alexis Clancy

March 25th, 2016 in the categories: Mathematics

“Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain basic arithmetic truths, there is an arithmetical statement that is true, but not provable in the theory.” -- Kurt Gödel
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What is hyper-modernism?, by Alan N. Shapiro

March 24th, 2016 in the categories: History, Science Fiction Studies

The reflection on hyper-modernism has to be epistemologically recursive. The form of the discourse must be consistent with what hyper-modernism is. I must avoid having a contradiction between content and presentation in my discourse. I cannot speak about hyper-modernism via a simple linear narrative, a chronology, which would be modernist. I must also be embodied and performative in what I am saying.
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Das Paradox, die Zukunft vorherzusehen, von Alan N. Shapiro

March 23rd, 2016 in the categories: Future Design

Die meisten Voraussagen über das, was geschehen mag, sind im wesentlichen psychologische Projektionen eines imaginären Zukunftsszenarios, bestehend aus einigen geläufigen Phänomenen, die sich tatsächlich bereits ereignet haben oder sich gerade gegenwärtig ereignen; denen die betreffende Person, die die Voraussage tätigt, jedoch nicht offen gegenübertritt.
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“Ex Machina”: The End of Turing’s Man and the Paradigm Shift in Artificial Intelligence, by Alan N. Shapiro and Franco Torriani

March 9th, 2016 in the categories: Artificial Intelligence

The founder and CEO of the mega-company Bluebook is a genius programmer who wrote the source code of the Bluebook search engine when he was 15. Philosophically, the CEO is a technological determinist. He believes that Artificial Intelligence is inevitable. AI is a simple linear outgrowth of, or extrapolation from, the further incremental development of computer science as we know it. The breakthrough of Artificial Intelligence, for Nathan, is not such a big deal. It's on its way, it's coming to a theatre near you.