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The Seer of Unreality

Author : Mark Romel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 107202747X

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You feel compelled. To do what? To bridge the gap. What gap? The Information Gap. You need to know why the world seems increasingly unreal. You need to know why the reality principle is fading before your eyes.What will human beings do when they realize they are in the Matrix, but there is no red pill to let them out? We stand on the verge of the ultimate wars of the human race - the Unreality Wars, the Hyperreality Wars. These wars constitute the true Apocalypse. They are the wars to wipe out truth and meaning once and for all. As Baudrillard said, "We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning."We will drown in data and be starved of purpose. The dawn of Nihilism is here. Social media is its Church and "influencers" are its prophets. In the Age of PewDiePie and the Kardashians, no one can hear you scream.

The Seer of Unreality: The Hyperreality Wars

Author : Mark Romel
Publisher : Magus Books
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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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 The World has been replaced by the Screen.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.

Simulacra and Simulation

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472065211

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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.

The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning

Author : Joe Dixon
Publisher : Magus Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning by Joe Dixon Pdf

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.

Control and Freedom

Author : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262533065

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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)

Author : Joseph Nechvatal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1785421247

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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.

A Poetics of Postmodernism

Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134986262

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First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Touring Cultures

Author : Chris Rojek,John Urry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134833733

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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.

A Philosophy of Madness

Author : Wouter Kusters
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262044288

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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.

Symbolic Exchange and Death

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781473998407

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"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

Culture Jam

Author : Kalle Lasn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780688178055

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America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions wield power; the way television stations are run; and the way the food, fashion, automobile, sports, music, and culture industries set agendas. With a courageous and compelling voice, Lasn deconstructs the advertising culture and our fixation on icons and brand names. And he shows how to organize resistance against the power trust that manages the brands by "uncooling" consumer items, by "dermarketing" fashions and celebrities, and by breaking the "media trance" of our TV-addicted age. A powerful manifesto by a leading media activist, Culture Jam lays the foundations for the most significant social movement of the early twenty-first century -- a movement that can change the world and the way we think and live.

The New Sartre

Author : Nik Farrell Fox
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826490972

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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.

THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE

Author : Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781932595949

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THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Pdf

Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) will be remembered for its crucial influence on youth culture throughout the 1980s, popularizing tattooing, body piercing, "acid house" raves, and other ahead-of-the-curve cultic flirtations and investigations. Its leader was Genesis P-Orridge, co-founder of Psychick TV and Throbbing Gristle, the band that created the industrial music genre. The limited signed cloth edition of Thee Psychick Bible quickly sold out, creating demand for any edition of this 544-page book, which will be available in a handsome smyth-sewn paperback edition with flaps and ribbon. According to author Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, "this is the most profound new manual on practical magick, taking it from its Crowleyan empowerment of the Individual to a next level of realization to evolve our species."

The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary

Author : Eugene B. Young
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441148247

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The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary by Eugene B. Young Pdf

The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, two of the most important and influential thinkers in twentieth-century European philosophy. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all their major sole-authored and collaborative works, ideas and influences and provides a firm grounding in the central themes of Deleuze and Guattari's groundbreaking thought. Students and experts alike will discover a wealth of useful information, analysis and criticism. A-Z entries include clear definitions of all the key terms used in Deleuze and Guattari's writings and detailed synopses of their key works. The Dictionary also includes entries on their major philosophical influences and key contemporaries, from Aristotle to Foucault. It covers everything that is essential to a sound understanding of Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy, offering clear and accessible explanations of often complex terminology. The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary is the ideal resource for anyone reading or studying these seminal thinkers or Modern European Philosophy more generally.

Reconfigurations

Author : Stefanie Knauss,Alexander D. Ornella
Publisher : Alexander Darius Ornella
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783825807757

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Reconfigurations by Stefanie Knauss,Alexander D. Ornella Pdf

From "Once Upon a Time in the West" to "Moulin Rouge", from Ghanaian video-movies to Japanese Manga, from Christian symbolism in advertising to the mythic significance of female messiah figures, from the relationship of the arts and theology to the role of the audience in the meaningmaking process, this book provides a feast for anyone wanting to explore the interconnectivity of religion, media and society.