Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction (eBook)

Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism

Alan N. Shapiro (Autor)

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2024
374 Seiten
Transcript Verlag
978-3-8394-7242-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Digitale Gesellschaft
• Zusatzinfo: Dispersionsbindung, 21 Farbabbildungen
• Verlagsort: Bielefeld
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Creative Coding • Critical theory • Cultural Theory • Culture • Digital Cuture • Digital Media • Film • Marxism • media • Media Studies • Media Theory • posthumanism
• ISBN-10: 3-8394-7242-3 / 3839472423
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8394-7242-2 / 9783839472422