Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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On the Sociology of Music, by Alan N. Shapiro and Chris Williams

February 12th, 2012 in the categories: Music

Here we make the first presentation of our ideas about the reality of popular music in contemporary society. But what is reality? What is the relationship between reality and mediality? Between reality and virtuality? Between reality and simulations? What is music in the context of our social system of consumer culture?
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Morality in Europe Today

February 5th, 2011 in the categories: Music, University of the Future

There is a crisis of liberalism in Europe today. Liberalism and radicalism need each other. It is not a question of giving up one for the other, as so many activists and intellectuals in our history unfortunately did.