book: Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction

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Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction

Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism

Alan N. Shapiro

Volume 67 in the series Digitale Gesellschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839472422

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How do digital media technologies affect society and our lives? Through the cultural theory hypotheses of hyper-modernism, hyperreality, and posthumanism, Alan N. Shapiro investigates the social impact of Virtual/Augmented Reality, AI, social media platforms, robots, and the Brain-Computer Interface. His examination of concepts of Jean Baudrillard and Katherine Hayles, as well as films such as Blade Runner 2049, Ghost in the Shell, Ex Machina, and the TV series Black Mirror, suggests that the boundary between science fiction narratives and the »real world« has become indistinct. Science-fictional thinking should be advanced as a principal mode of knowledge for grasping the world and digitalization.

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Alan N. Shapiro teaches media theory at Hochschule für Künste Bremen and future design research at Hochschule Luzern. He has also been visiting professor of transdisciplinary design and heterotopia at the Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, and worked for many years as a software developer. He is originally from New York City and lives in Frankfurt.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	9
Methodology Open Access Download PDF	23
Part One – Hyper-Modernism: Digital Media Technologies and Science Fiction
Overview of Part One Open Access Download PDF	31
Mobility and Science Fiction Open Access Download PDF	37
Science Fiction Heterotopia: The Economy of the Future Open Access Download PDF	69
What is Hyper-Modernism? Open Access Download PDF	103
Part Two – Hyperreality: Reevaluation of Jean Baudrillard’s Media Theory and the Simulacrum
Overview of Part Two Open Access Download PDF	119
Baudrillard’s Importance for the Future Open Access Download PDF	125
Baudrillard and the Situationists Open Access Download PDF	161
Jean Baudrillard and the Donald: Is Trump a Fascist or is He the Parody of Fascism? Open Access Download PDF	187
Part Three – Posthumanism: N. Katherine Hayles’ History of Cybernetics, Creative Coding, and the Future of Informatics
Overview of Part Three Open Access Download PDF	205
Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance Open Access Download PDF	217
Software Code as Expanded Narration Open Access Download PDF	261
Beyond the Code/Executable Dualism Open Access Download PDF	285
The Software of the Future, or the Model Precedes the Real Open Access Download PDF	293
Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	319
Notes Open Access Download PDF	339

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 374
Keywords: Media Theory; Posthumanism; Creative Coding; Digital Cuture; Marxism; Critical Theory; Media; Culture; Film; Cultural Theory; Digital Media; Media Studies

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Published: June 26, 2024
ISBN: 9783839472422