Category: Thinkers
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Film Adaptations of Albert Camus’ “The Stranger”
One of the great novels of the twentieth century is The Stranger by Albert Camus. François Ozon’s new film adaptation is playing in movie theaters. The Stranger has been adapted across different media by creators from Algeria, Turkey, Italy, Argentina, and France.
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Alan N. Shapiro racconta “Star Trek” e “The Prisoner” (RAI4 Italian TV interviews)
Interviews on Italian TV (RAI4) about The Prisoner and Star Trek.
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Donna J. Haraway’s “A Manifesto for Cyborgs”
Donna Haraway’s text “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” was written in 1985, but it reads as if itwere written yesterday. A cyborg is a hybrid of living organism and machine. The cyborg is a person whose body has been supplemented by artificial components. The term is anacronym derived from “cybernetic organism.”
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Fiction, Power, and Codes in Hyper-Modernism
The most significant facet for my perspective is that, in hyper-modernism, the power and control exercised via narratives and fictions in the media-technological society now get implemented on much more detailed micro-levels via algorithmic-informatic codes and digital, virtual, and cybernetic technologies.
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Claus Pias on First-Order Cybernetics
The complete transactions of the Macys Conferences on Cybernetics, held between 1946 and 1953, were recently (2015) edited by Claus Pias and published in English and German. Pias discusses the importance of first-order cybernetics in the post-Second World War history of ideas in his introductory essay “The Age of Cybernetics.”
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Bernhard Dotzler on Second-Order Cybernetics
In his major three-volume work Diskurs und Medium, Bernhard J. Dotzler considers discourse and medium as embodied knowledge or thinking, examining “archaeologically” the interconnections between technology and the history of ideas.