#hypermodernity

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gamers, surrounded by stories, full of anxiety, tethered to capitalism [ more dorbo ] ] patronon ]

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"The Who's Who"

household acrylic & graphite on wood panel

**(25×25 inches)**

[techniche]

Hypermodernity put an end to the shopping mall, which began to dissolve and disappear during the decade of the 2000’s as the Internet, in turn, decentralized the mall by exporting it to the living room: in effect, the mall became an individualized, rather than a communal, experience.

John David Ebert (On Hypermodernity,  7th March 2018)

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We have a habit of making theories about organisms and basing them on the machine of the hour.  We used to say that the human body worked like a clock, but that was when the clock was the ultimate machine.  There was also a time when we said it worked just like levers and pulleys and hydraulics. [...] Now, predictably, we're convinced that the body works like a computer.  We're using theories from computer science -- theories that come from the machine world -- to explain how the brain works, and that disturbs [Michael] Conrad

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Janine M. Benyus, p. 236

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Reality Gives Way to the Real: The Epistemic Crisis and the Damaging Omnipresence of the Sublime

While the news media sometimes talks about an Epistemic Crisis, or discusses the caustic effect that social media has on discourse, or featu

Are our minds big enough for the thoughts we need to have to survive the 21st century?

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[zakharikhov]

In Homage to Callanan.

The Big Mac is often held up as the emblem of globalisation, the archetypal symbol of economic progress and heightened connectivities between countries with the rise of powerful Transnational corporations (TNCs) that is McDonald’s. The Big Mac Index, clean and simple as it is, has thus become a powerful tool to scrutinise the health and wealth or rather, the general state of living between countries.

Intrinsically, though, the Big Mac is but an aggregation of many different elements; ingredients sourced all around the world - a complex operation involving cargo ships, trucks, local delivery companies and a synergy between vital stakeholders down to the cashier behind the counter that has curiously enough, been translated into a simple visual image of beef patties between buns juxtaposed against a clean background. Subsequently, this simple image continues to broadcast power all around the world in the 119 countries that Mcdonald’s operates in.

The complexities behind producing an ‘easy’ meal for one have now been reduced to an image of a juicy burger, as an algorithm of data and values that adjusts itself accordingly to country and economy. Economic, business, logistical relationships matter less in comparison to  an attractive minimalistic advertisement in the media.

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51 Prisoners Refuse Orders to Re-Enter Their Cells at the Souza-Baranowski Maximum-Security Prison in Shirley, Massachusetts, January 9, 2017 { Screenshots of live wcvb/abc5 stream on facebook