Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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The Truman Show: “The Last Thing That I Would Ever Do is Lie to You”

July 31st, 2024 in the categories: Reality TV, Science Fiction Film, Surveillance

Truman Burbank – played by Jim Carrey – is under surveillance by television cameras twenty-four hours a day within the framework of a carefully choreographed Reality TV show that is watched by billions of voyeuristic viewers all over the world. Truman lives inside a vast Hollywood studio erected as an enclosed dome that is so large that it can be seen from outer space.
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How to Take Back Our Freedom in the Surveillance Society, by Alan N. Shapiro

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Surveillance

It should have been clear a long time ago that the emerging omnipresence of information technologies would lead to an explosion of surveillance in all areas of our lives. We need to go beyond Foucault-, Orwell- and Huxley-inspired models of how contemporary quasi-totalitarian systems of social control work.