The Seer Of Unreality The Hyperreality Wars
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The Seer Of Unreality The Hyperreality Wars
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Author : Mark Romel
language : en
Publisher: Magus Books
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The Seer Of Unreality The Hyperreality Wars written by Mark Romel and has been published by Magus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Computers categories.
The strangest of all wars has broken out. The Third World War is the Unreality War. Some call it the Hyperreal War, the war of the "more real than real". Reality can deliver only so much. Human fantasy, by contrast, knows no bounds. Reality acknowledges constraints. Fantasy doesn't. The hyperreal is where human fantasy, rather than reality, drives humanity's perceived reality. Actual reality is reduced to nostalgia. As technology improves, it delivers human fantasy with ever more power. It does so via vivid, luscious screens, the perfect medium of human fantasy. The World has been replaced by the Screen. The more people look at the screen rather than at the world, the more they are in hyperreality. Come inside and explore the strangest of all worlds.
The Mandarin Effect The Crisis Of Meaning
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Author : Joe Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Magus Books
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The Mandarin Effect The Crisis Of Meaning written by Joe Dixon and has been published by Magus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Are you struggling to find meaning in your life? Then you are a victim of the Mandarin Effect. This is one of the most sinister features of the modern world, and is being highlighted here for the first time. The force that most contributes to the crisis of meaning is the last one you would expect. Who are the Mandarins and how are they ruining the world? What can be done about them? Who are the small group that can combat the Mandarins, and why have they been airbrushed out of history, as if they never existed? Come inside and read the extraordinary story of a hidden war that is shaping the destiny of the human race. Humanity is currently losing. But, thanks to one group, hope is not yet extinguished.
Simulacra And Simulation
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Author : Jean Baudrillard
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1994
Simulacra And Simulation written by Jean Baudrillard and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Art categories.
Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
Control And Freedom
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Author : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2008-09-26
Control And Freedom written by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-26 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy. How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones. Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace. The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks—light coursing through glass tubes—as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.
Immersion Into Noise Second Edition
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Author : Joseph Nechvatal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-03-18
Immersion Into Noise Second Edition written by Joseph Nechvatal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-18 with Art categories.
The noise factor is the ratio of signal to noise of an input signal to that of the output signal. Noise can block or interfere with the meaning of a message in both human and electronic communication. But in Information Theory, noise is still considered to be information. By refining the definition of noise as that which addresses us outside of our preferred comfort zone, Joseph Nechvatal's Immersion Into Noise investigates multiple aspects of cultural noise by applying the audio understanding of noise to the visual, architectural and cognitive domains. Nechvatal expands and extends our understanding of the function of cultural noise by taking the reader through the immersive and phenomenal aspects of noise into algorithmic and network contexts, beginning with his experience in the Abside of the Grotte de Lascaux. Immersion Into Noise is intended as a conceptual handbook useful for the development of a personal-political-visionary art of noise. On a planet that is increasingly technologically linked and globally mediated, how might noises break and re-connect in distinctive and productive ways within practices located in the world of art and thought? That is the question Joseph Nechvatal explores in Immersion Into Noise.
Symbolic Exchange And Death
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Author : Jean Baudrillard
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2016-12-15
Symbolic Exchange And Death written by Jean Baudrillard and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with Business & Economics categories.
"This is easily Baudrillard’s most important work.... Anyone who wants to understand the complexity and provocativeness of Baudrillard’s richest period must read this text." – Douglas Kellner
Touring Cultures
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Author : Chris Rojek
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-11
Touring Cultures written by Chris Rojek and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with Social Science categories.
It is becoming ever clearer that while people tour cultures, cultures and objects themselves are in a constant state of migration. This collection brings together some of the most influential writers in the field to examine the complex connections between tourism and cultural change and the relevance of tourist experience to current theoretical debates on space, time and identity.
The New Sartre
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Author : Nik Farrell Fox
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-06-07
The New Sartre written by Nik Farrell Fox and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-07 with Philosophy categories.
Presents a radical reassessment of Jean Paul Sartre's work, the systematic study of Sartre's relationship to postmodernism. This book explores the differences and similarities between Sartrean existentialism and French poststructuralism. It highlights the value and relevance of Sartre's work to our postmodern times.
A Philosophy Of Madness
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Author : Wouter Kusters
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-12-01
A Philosophy Of Madness written by Wouter Kusters and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with Philosophy categories.
The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of madness. In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis—and the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the experience of the psychotic from medical classification, he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness of textbooks and academia, allowing philosophers to engage in real-life praxis, philosophy in vivo. Philosophy and madness—Kusters's preferred, non-medicalized term—coexist, one mirroring the other. Kusters draws on his own experience of madness—two episodes of psychosis, twenty years apart—as well as other first-person narratives of psychosis. Speculating about the maddening effect of certain words and thought, he argues, and demonstrates, that the steady flow of philosophical deliberation may sweep one into a full-blown acute psychotic episode. Indeed, a certain kind of philosophizing may result in confusion, paradoxes, unworldly insights, and circular frozenness reminiscent of madness. Psychosis presents itself to the psychotic as an inescapable truth and reality. Kusters evokes the mad person's philosophical or existential amazement at reality, thinking, time, and space, drawing on classic autobiographical accounts of psychoses by Antonin Artaud, Daniel Schreber, and others, as well as the work of phenomenological psychiatrists and psychologists and such phenomenologists as Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. He considers the philosophical mystic and the mystical philosopher, tracing the mad undercurrent in the Husserlian philosophy of time; visits the cloud castles of mystical madness, encountering LSD devotees, philosophers, theologians, and nihilists; and, falling to earth, finds anxiety, emptiness, delusions, and hallucinations. Madness and philosophy proceed and converge toward a single vanishing point.
A Poetics Of Postmodernism
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Author : Linda Hutcheon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
A Poetics Of Postmodernism written by Linda Hutcheon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.