Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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Is Trump a Fascist or is He the Parody of Fascism?

March 8th, 2021 in the categories: Donald Trump, Jean Baudrillard

The kind of media theory or media analysis which has been prevalent on the American political left for the past several decades operates essentially with an epistemology of true and false. In their war against Trump, the liberal political media – CNN and the New York Times, for example – take the same tack.
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Orwell, Baudrillard and Trump, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 19th, 2017 in the categories: Donald Trump, Jean Baudrillard

From a Baudrillardian perspective, one could say that the media themselves (not only the news media, but the media considered in their widest scope) – having promoted a culture of simulation and simulacra where words and images stand on their own and have no reference – are responsible for Trump.
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Baudrillard und Trump: Agonie des Realen, von Alan N. Shapiro

February 18th, 2017 in the categories: Donald Trump, Jean Baudrillard

Es handelt sich hier um den fraktalen oder viralen Zustand von Simulakra der vierten Ordnung. Nach Baudrillard Post-Simulations-Erkenntnistheorie oder der "Simulationsepidemie" strahlt der Wert - wenn dieser Begriff noch angebracht ist - wie krebsartige Metastasen in alle Richtungen aus.
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Baudrillard und Trump: Simulation und Objektorientierung, nicht wahr und falsch, von Alan N. Shapiro

February 16th, 2017 in the categories: Donald Trump, Jean Baudrillard

Der Diskurs der Kritischen Theorie ist nicht brauchbar. Trump ist der Kandidat des Reality-Fernsehens, der Prominentenkultur, der Medienhyperrealitätsunterhaltung, jener 15 Minuten Ruhm für jedermann (Warhol), des "Transpolitischen" (Baudrillard) und der Objektorientierung (OO).
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Baudrillard and Trump: Simulation and Object-Orientation, Not True and False by Alan N. Shapiro

January 5th, 2017 in the categories: Donald Trump, Jean Baudrillard

Critical theory discourse is ineffective. Trump is the candidate of Reality TV, of the celebrity culture, of media hyper-reality entertainment, of everyone’s 15 minutes of fame (Warhol), of the “trans-political” (Baudrillard), and of object-orientation (OO).