Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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Sartre and Derrida: The Promises of the Subject, by Christina Howells

May 25th, 2011 in the categories: Jacques Derrida, Jean-Paul Sartre

The subject of Derrida’s relations with Sartre has preoccupied me for around twenty-five years, since I first discovered Derrida’s work in fact, in 1980, the year of Sartre’s death, and felt certain he owed an enormous amount to the patterns of thinking, if not necessarily the conclusions, of his philosophical predecessor.
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Impressionist Paintings by Florence Morrison, Installment 2

May 25th, 2011 in the categories: Painting

Walk to Elysium (1963), Protected Walkway (1968), Connecting Fences (1960)
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From Las Vegas (NV) to the Cactus League (AZ)

May 20th, 2011 in the categories: New American Studies, Photography

Leaving Las Vegas... Driving through the northern Arizona desert... To the Cactus League... In the Shadow of Jean Baudrillard and America... To arrive at nighttime March baseball in southern Arizona!
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Lost: The Crash Out of Globalization and Into the World

May 11th, 2011 in the categories: Lost

The television show "Lost" premiered on September 22, 2004. En route from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California, USA, Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashes on an unknown Island in the South Pacific. This flight symbolizes globalization, and the crash of Flight 815 symbolizes the crash of globalization.