Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction : : Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism.

• Superior document: Digitale Gesellschaft Series
• Author: Shapiro, Alan N.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Digitale Gesellschaft Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (375 pages)

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Three Central Hypotheses
• The Logical Progression of the Three Concepts or Hypotheses
• Part One - Hyper‐Modernism: Digital Media Technologies and Science Fiction
• Part One to Part Two: From Hyper‐Modernism to Hyperreality
• Part Two - Hyperreality: Reevaluation of Jean Baudrillard's Media Theory and the Simulacrum
• Part Two to Part Three: From Hyperreality to Post‐Humanism and Creative Coding
• Part Three - Posthumanism: N. Katherine Hayles' History of Cybernetics, Creative Coding, and the Future of Informatics
• Originally Published Versions
• Methodology
• Thirty Minute Statement at my Ph.D. Oral Defense Alan N. Shapiro, April 12, 2024
• Part One - Hyper‐Modernism: Digital Media Technologies and Science Fiction
• Overview of Part One
• Short Definitions of Modernity, Postmodernism, and Hyper‐Modernism
• The Three Essays of Part One
• Mobility and Science Fiction
• Introduction
• We Do Not Live in a Society Where Mobility is Encouraged
• The Dream of the Tomorrow‐Car
• Henri Matisse Paints "the Vision Machine"
• The New Vision Machine
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Menace of Verticality
• The "Spinner" Flying Cars of Blade Runner: Simulation and Surveillance
• Blade Runner: We Are All Replicants
• Blade Runner 2049: Android Liberation Between Old and New Informatic Power
• Minority Report: The Utopia/Dystopia of Surveillance Technologies
• The Fifth Element: When Manhattan has no More Ways to Expand
• Back to the Future: A Speed So Fast that the Laws of Spacetime Get Shattered
• Total Recall: You're in a Johnny Cab
• Robots Versus Androids
• Self‐Owning Cars
• Enhance the Physical World
• The Simulacra, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Dr. Bloodmoney
• The "Science Fiction World" of Philip K. Dick's Ubik.
• Who Is Jory Miller and What is Ubik?
• Fredric Jameson on Postmodernism
• Sonja Yeh on the Postmodern Media Theorists
• Donna J. Haraway's "A Manifesto for Cyborgs"
• Science Fiction Heterotopia: The Economy of the Future
• Introduction: Foucault's Heterotopia
• The Technologizing of Memory
• Black Mirror: "The Entire History of You" - Scenes from a Marriage
• Similar Technologies in the Real World Today
• Brain‐Computer Interface
• Designing the Brain‐Computer Interface
• Hyper‐Modernist Literature
• The Economy of the Future
• Post‐Capitalism and Technological Anarchism
• Star Trek Replicators and Star Trek Economics
• Ecologically Aware or Sustainable 3D Printers
• Additive Manufacturing and Living Organisms
• Andre Gorz: Human Liberation Beyond Work
• Murray Bookchin, Post‐Scarcity Anarchism
• Yanis Varoufakis' Vision of Post‐Capitalism
• Conclusion
• Geert Lovink on Post‐Capitalism
• Blockchain Decentralized Idealism
• Smart Contracts
• Between Law and Code
• Decentralized Autonomous Organization
• Between Corporate Intellectual Property Rights and the Rights of Users
• Fiction and Power in Postmodernism
• Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society
• Donna J. Haraway on the Informatics of Domination
• Michel Foucault's Analytics of Power
• Jean Baudrillard, Forget Foucault
• Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript on the Societies of Control"
• Fiction, Power, and Codes in Hyper‐Modernism
• John Armitage on Hyper‐Modernism
• Albert Borgmann on Hyper‐Modernism
• Gilles Lipovetsky on Hyper‐Modernism
• What is Hyper‐Modernism?
• Introduction
• Access to History
• The Carnivalesque
• Modernity, Postmodernism, Hyper‐Modernism
• Gustave Flaubert: To Write a Novel About Nothing
• Hyper‐Modernist Creativity
• Body, Self, and Code in Hyper‐Modernism
• Sincerity and Authenticity.
• Darko Suvin on Science Fiction Studies
• Carl Freedman on Science Fiction Studies
• Istvan Ciscsery‐Ronay, Jr. on Science Fiction Studies
• Part Two - Hyperreality: Reevaluation of Jean Baudrillard's Media Theory and the Simulacrum
• Overview of Part Two
• Defining the Simulacrum and Hyperreality
• Thinking Hyperreality: From Rhetoric to Code
• Baudrillard's Importance for the Future
• Baudrillard and the Situationists
• Baudrillard and Trump
• Baudrillard's Importance for the Future
• The Controversy Around Baudrillard
• Yes - Everything is Simulation!
• Early Baudrillard: The Consumer Society and For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
• Symbolic Exchange and the Gift Economy
• The First Order of Simulacra: The Student of Prague
• The Second Order of Simulacra: The First Industrial Revolution
• The Third Order of Simulacra: Simulation and Hyperreality
• First‐Wave Digitalization as Interactive Performance
• The Fourth Order of Simulacra: Value Radiates in All Directions
• From Descartes to Baudrillard: The "Evil Demon" of Images
• Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
• The Trapdoor Escape Hatch Way Out of Hyperreality
• High Life: The Black Hole of Humanity's Extinction and New Hope
• Poetic Resolution in Baudrillard's Thought
• Daniel Boorstin, The Image: Hyperreality Overtakes America
• Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality
• Roland Barthes, Mythologies
• Taking the Side of Objects
• Plato and the Simulacrum
• Plato as Software Designer
• Brian Gogan on Plato, Baudrillard, and Rhetoric
• Deleuze on "Plato and the Simulacrum"
• Upgrading Hyperreality and the Simulacrum for Digitalization
• Personalized Advertising
• Transdisciplinarity is Good for (Post‑)Humanity
• Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and the Metaverse
• Baudrillard and the Situationists
• Introduction.
• "Taking the Side of Objects" and the Situationists
• Baudrillard's Paradigm Shift
• Is Baudrillard Fair to the Situationists?
• "Baudrillard and the Situationists" Commentators Douglas Kellner and Sadie Plant, and the Tension between Critical Theory and Fatal Theory
• Exhibit A (Baudrillard self‐simplifies):
• Exhibit B (Baudrillard's critique of the Situationists is reductionist):
• Exhibit C (Sadie Plant's critique of Baudrillard is reductionist):
• Situationist Practices
• Wandering or the Drift - Le Dérive
• Psycho‐Geography
• The Diverting of Technologies - Le détournement
• The Making or Creating or Construction of Situations
• The Radical Illusion Beyond Art
• Neo‐Situationism in the Field of Advanced Digital Technologies
• Urban and Street Art Activism
• Augmented Reality versus Wall Street
• Conclusion
• McKenzie Wark on the Situationists
• Play Don't Work
• Existential Encounter with the Object
• From the Subject to the Object in Jean‐Paul Sartre's Nausea
• The Myth of Sisyphus: Albert Camus on the Side of Objects
• Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
• Jean Baudrillard and the Donald: Is Trump a Fascist or is He the Parody of Fascism?
• Epistemology of True and False
• Society of the Spectacle and Hyperreality
• Donald Trump the Empty Signifier
• From Simulation to the Grotesque and the Self‐Parody
• Springtime for Hitler
• Serge Latouche Remembers Baudrillard
• Biosphere 2: The Artificial Paradise of Nature
• Reality TV and Baudrillard's Telemorphosis
• The Truman Show: "The Last Thing That I Would Ever Do is Lie to You"
• My Two Key Differences from Baudrillard
• Part Three - Posthumanism: N. Katherine Hayles' History of Cybernetics, Creative Coding, and the Future of Informatics
• Overview of Part Three
• The Science Fiction of Star Trek.
• Star Trek's Spock, Data, and Seven of Nine and the Three Orders of Cybernetics
• What is Posthumanism?
• The Concept of Nature in Whitehead and Merleau‐Ponty
• Rosi Braidotti's Celebratory Posthuman Philosophy
• A Fully Posthuman Situation
• Wendy Chun on Software Code
• Software Code as Expanded Narration
• The Software of the Future
• Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance
• Technoscience and Storytelling
• From Liberal Humanism to Posthumanism
• Cyborg Spock and NASA's Cyborg
• First Order Cybernetics
• How Information Lost Its Body
• Claus Pias on First‐Order Cybernetics
• Gene Roddenberry Designs His First Alien
• "The Devil in the Dark": Empathy for Radical Otherness
• Second Order Cybernetics
• Bernhard Dotzler on Second‐Order Cybernetics
• The Android Data of Star Trek: The Next Generation
• "The Offspring": Data's Daughter Lal
• Third Order Cybernetics
• "Becoming‐Borg" Seven of Nine
• Star Trek: Picard, "Remembrance"
• "Embodied Informatics" is a Science Fiction Idea
• Hayles on Writing and Software Code
• Hyper‐Modernist Science
• I, Robot and the Moral Dilemmas of the Three Laws of Robotics
• The Zeroth Law of Robotics and the Robot Unconscious
• Hayles on the Cognitive Nonconscious
• Marie‐Luise Angerer Critiques Hayles
• Judith Butler and Gender Theory
• Ex Machina and the Turing Test
• Ex Machina: The Performance of Female and Human
• Monique Wittig, The Straight Mind
• Software Code as Expanded Narration
• Software Code as Expressive Media
• Friedrich Kittler: The Numeric Kernel is Decisive
• Kittler's Media Archaeology
• Wolfgang Hagen on Programming Languages
• Ten Paradigms of Informatics and Programming
• The First Hyper‐Modern Computers
• Enter Software Studies
• Enter Creative Coding
• Alan Turing: The Imitation Game and Befriending the Evil Demon.
• Alan Turing: The Scientific and Cultural Levels of Computing.