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Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction
About this book
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.
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»Shapiros poetics of coding certainly enriches the scientific and philosophical debate in view of the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) is now considered a sparring/ jarring partner. Thanks to Shapiros background in the philosophy of science, the book mobilises an impressive array of theoretical references bridging any so-called divide between Continental and Analytic Philosophy.«
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Methodology
23 - Part One – Hyper-Modernism: Digital Media Technologies and Science Fiction
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Overview of Part One
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Mobility and Science Fiction
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Science Fiction Heterotopia: The Economy of the Future
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What is Hyper-Modernism?
103 - Part Two – Hyperreality: Reevaluation of Jean Baudrillard’s Media Theory and the Simulacrum
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Overview of Part Two
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Baudrillard’s Importance for the Future
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Baudrillard and the Situationists
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Jean Baudrillard and the Donald: Is Trump a Fascist or is He the Parody of Fascism?
187 - Part Three – Posthumanism: N. Katherine Hayles’ History of Cybernetics, Creative Coding, and the Future of Informatics
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Overview of Part Three
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Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance
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Software Code as Expanded Narration
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Beyond the Code/Executable Dualism
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The Software of the Future, or the Model Precedes the Real
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Conclusion
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Notes
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