Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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“More After More: Essays Commemorating the Five Hundreth Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia”, edited by Ksenia Olkusz, Michał Kłosiński, and Krzysztof M. Maj

January 9th, 2017 in the categories: Utopian Studies

The book "More After More. Essays Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia" is the first volume of the new publishing series “Frontiers of Nowhere” designed by Facta Ficta Research Centre in Kraków (factaficta.org/en) to probe the boundaries of fictional world-building and contemporary narrative theories.
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Baudrillard and Trump: Simulation and Object-Orientation, Not True and False by Alan N. Shapiro

January 5th, 2017 in the categories: Donald Trump, Jean Baudrillard

Critical theory discourse is ineffective. Trump is the candidate of Reality TV, of the celebrity culture, of media hyper-reality entertainment, of everyone’s 15 minutes of fame (Warhol), of the “trans-political” (Baudrillard), and of object-orientation (OO).