Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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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.