Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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“The Wire” and Luhmann’s Systems Theory, by Yara Scholtis

January 25th, 2013 in the categories: Media Studies

The Wire’s exploration of sociological themes is truly exceptional. Indeed I do not hesitate to say that it has done more to enhance our understandings of the challenges of urban life and urban inequality than any other media event or scholarly publication, including studies by social scientists.
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“Lost”: Der Pilotfilm, Symbole und wiederkehrende Themen, von Vanessa Berkler

January 25th, 2013 in the categories: Lost

Die erfolgreiche TV-Serie "Lost" startete im Jahr 2004 und endete im Jahr 2010 nach sechs Staffeln und 121 Folgen. Inhalt ist der Flugzeugabsturz des Oceanic Flight 815, bei dem 48 Überlebende auf einer einsamen, geheimnisvollen Insel stranden.
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“Lost” und Literatur, von Concetta Altmaier

January 25th, 2013 in the categories: Lost

Unsere Gesellschaft sowie die Geisteswissenschaften neigen dazu, kulturelle Erzeugnisse, zu denen sowohl Bücher als auch Medien gehören, in verschiedene qualitative Ränge zu unterteilen. Gehört die Literatur zur sogenannten Hochkultur, wird dem Fernsehen und auch den Fernsehserien diese Einstufung meist verwehrt.
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Reality and Simulation in “The Prisoner,” by Caroline Fuchs

January 25th, 2013 in the categories: Jean Baudrillard, Media Studies

For most of the Villagers it is not possible to separate between what is real and what is simulated. A simulation is created in The Village through the use of media. But what if most of what the Villagers do, see and live is a simulation? Can there even be a reality behind that façade?
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“Out of thin air” – Mask and Representation in “Mad Men,” by Marten Weise

January 25th, 2013 in the categories: Media Studies

The American TV Show Mad Men, first broadcast in July 2007, has received a lot of positive critique and has also been awarded with many well-known prizes. According to my reading of the series, the most important aspect in it is another representation of (re)presentation itself, namely identity.
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Orientation, von Anja Vögerl

December 21st, 2012 in the categories: Lost

“Orientation” ist die dritte Folge der zweiten Staffel der US TV-Sendung “LOST”. Die Episode ist ein wichtiger Teil der gesamten zweiten Staffel, da sie nicht nur entscheidende Informationen enthält, sondern auch den (noch) unterschwelligen Konflikt zwischen Jack und Locke weiter anheizt.
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Jets’ Playoff Chances

December 10th, 2012 in the categories: American Football

Let's see if anyone can tell me if my analysis here is wrong: In all this, I assume that the Jets win their last 3 games against weak opponents. Consider the scenario of the Bengals beating the Steelers then losing to the Ravens.
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Twenty Basic Principles of a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro

October 13th, 2012 in the categories: Ecology, Energy, and the Environment

In the third part of my lecture, I will now build on top of the ideas of Baudrillard and Gatti that I have presented, and I will start to conceptualize the essential elements of the proposed New Green Politics.
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Towards a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro

October 13th, 2012 in the categories: Ecology, Energy, and the Environment

How can we develop an alternative to this worn-out discourse of 'catastrophe warning', how can we construct a new Green Discourse, a new Green Politics that might jump-start the ecology-enviromental movement into effective action?
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The Plane of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro, and Congetture minime sullo spazi-tempo, by Pier Luigi Capucci

July 21st, 2012 in the categories: Future Design

Dall'Ars Electronica FUTURELAB ci sono stati commissionati dei testi per una installazione artistica presso il nuovo terminale dell'Aeroporto di Vienna. Il tema dell'installazione era "Zeit/Raum" ("Tempo/Spazio"), ed è stato realizzato anche un e-book interattivo con tutti i contributi.
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What’s the Use of Unrequited Love?, by Vesela Mihaylova

June 19th, 2012 in the categories: Philosophy of Love, The Illusion Beyond Art

I fell in love, but I was not being loved in return and I had to ask myself the question what was the use (or the sense) of this love. The affair ended, and I decided to apply my emotions and feelings into an artistic project in order to release them, in an attempt to put them in order, to examine them and let them go.
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Inter-disciplinary or Trans-disciplinary? by Nolan Bazinet

June 13th, 2012 in the categories: Science and the Humanities

The discourse of reconciling two epistemologically fundamental yet disparate cultures has come a long way. From the 1990s when such a discourse or emotionally-charged debate was dubbed ‘The Science Wars’ to today’s more productive debates, intellectuals from both camps are finally attempting to bridge the divide.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 4 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger and Alan N. Shapiro

June 9th, 2012 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0, Media Studies

Let us now take a look at the specific modes of time of the computer. In what comes next we would like to look into the timeliness of the computer itself, the rhythm created by the machine and by the user, and, lastly, the perception of time produced in the interaction between user and machine.
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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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