Category: Jean Baudrillard

This Week in Tech: Nervous System Override and Accelerated Culture Edition

Does anyone get nervous when thinking about technology? Maybe I’ve read too much dystopian sci-fi, or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been figuratively steeped in academic science and tech analysis and spent the majority of my teen years marinating in 90’s misanthropic existential angst and distrust of government, and science, and people in general.… Read More »This Week in Tech: Nervous System Override and Accelerated Culture Edition

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This Week in Tech: Nervous System Override and Accelerated Culture Edition

Does anyone get nervous when thinking about technology? Maybe I’ve read too much dystopian sci-fi, or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been figuratively steeped in academic science and tech analysis and spent the majority of my teen years marinating in 90’s misanthropic existential angst and distrust of government, and science, and people in general.… Read More »This Week in Tech: Nervous System Override and Accelerated Culture Edition

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This Week in Crypto: Hyperreality is the new Real Edition

Jean Baudrillard first came up with the twin ideas of accelerated culture and hyperreality while the internet was in its infancy. It’s an postmodern idea where we have an inability of consciousness to determine reality from simulation in technologically advanced postmodern societies. Hyperreality could therefore be a condition where we can’t determine what is real… Read More »This Week in Crypto: Hyperreality is the new Real Edition

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