Simon Stalenhag is a Swedish contemporary pop artist (now in his early 40s) who in 2015 published the first volume of his Tales from the Loop series (the fourth volume, The Labyrinth, was released in 2021).
Baudrillard's hyperreality is part of the postmodern Junkheap insofar as it involves the creation of simulacra of historical realities such as Disneyland's spatialization of time in which past epochs like The Old South which are put side by side with Smalltown, America or Futureworld. The 1972 version of Michael Crichton's Westworld does exactly the same thing whereas the HBO version of it is hypermodern in that it presupposes the hypermodern ur-symbol of the multiverse.
well written... The techno dystopia Mark Fisher talked about of endless recreations as fiscal policy would not allow for the expense of art that takes time to develop in its own anarchic process.
"as McLuhan called them—are always changing and are always being recreated by artists and technological geniuses like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk"
The endless tirade of narratives created by perception managers, children of millionaires that sold a new format and not a new idea.
No wonder everyone is left disappointed that creative work is still secondary in a world full of overabundance to the point of tariff wars?
Existential inflation of the product forgot to allow new movements and narratives to appear. Ergo
the rebellion will not be lives streamed or a.i produced.
Baudrillard's hyperreality is part of the postmodern Junkheap insofar as it involves the creation of simulacra of historical realities such as Disneyland's spatialization of time in which past epochs like The Old South which are put side by side with Smalltown, America or Futureworld. The 1972 version of Michael Crichton's Westworld does exactly the same thing whereas the HBO version of it is hypermodern in that it presupposes the hypermodern ur-symbol of the multiverse.
Thanks John! I understand how Baudrillard fits into the postmodern ‘Junkheap’ but haven’t grasped the hypermodernity-multiverse relationship entirely. I’m looking forward to your book about that very subject, but do you have any other books/reading you’d recommend as a foundation prior to that?
Also, having recently read the essay ‘Hyperinflation and Hyperreality: Thomas Mann in Light of Austrian Economics’, I find it interesting how Mann essentially foresaw the postmodern era through his deconstruction of the economic reality. And maybe proto-postmodern himself
No, not as of yet for further reading. Just the substack essays so far and the readings on here of the chapters from my book "Hypermodernity and the End of the World." For now, I'm concentrating on finishing the third novel in my trilogy, which is consciously a work of hypermodern literature. If you want to have a look at the first volume leave me your email and I'll send you a free pdf.
Baudrillard's hyperreality is part of the postmodern Junkheap insofar as it involves the creation of simulacra of historical realities such as Disneyland's spatialization of time in which past epochs like The Old South which are put side by side with Smalltown, America or Futureworld. The 1972 version of Michael Crichton's Westworld does exactly the same thing whereas the HBO version of it is hypermodern in that it presupposes the hypermodern ur-symbol of the multiverse.
well written... The techno dystopia Mark Fisher talked about of endless recreations as fiscal policy would not allow for the expense of art that takes time to develop in its own anarchic process.
"as McLuhan called them—are always changing and are always being recreated by artists and technological geniuses like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk"
The endless tirade of narratives created by perception managers, children of millionaires that sold a new format and not a new idea.
No wonder everyone is left disappointed that creative work is still secondary in a world full of overabundance to the point of tariff wars?
Existential inflation of the product forgot to allow new movements and narratives to appear. Ergo
the rebellion will not be lives streamed or a.i produced.
What’s the relation between hyper modernity and hyper realism (which you attribute to Baudrillard here)?
Baudrillard's hyperreality is part of the postmodern Junkheap insofar as it involves the creation of simulacra of historical realities such as Disneyland's spatialization of time in which past epochs like The Old South which are put side by side with Smalltown, America or Futureworld. The 1972 version of Michael Crichton's Westworld does exactly the same thing whereas the HBO version of it is hypermodern in that it presupposes the hypermodern ur-symbol of the multiverse.
Thanks John! I understand how Baudrillard fits into the postmodern ‘Junkheap’ but haven’t grasped the hypermodernity-multiverse relationship entirely. I’m looking forward to your book about that very subject, but do you have any other books/reading you’d recommend as a foundation prior to that?
Also, having recently read the essay ‘Hyperinflation and Hyperreality: Thomas Mann in Light of Austrian Economics’, I find it interesting how Mann essentially foresaw the postmodern era through his deconstruction of the economic reality. And maybe proto-postmodern himself
No, not as of yet for further reading. Just the substack essays so far and the readings on here of the chapters from my book "Hypermodernity and the End of the World." For now, I'm concentrating on finishing the third novel in my trilogy, which is consciously a work of hypermodern literature. If you want to have a look at the first volume leave me your email and I'll send you a free pdf.
Yes sure I’d to read the first volume, thanks you. Email: donrevere13@gmail.com
Would you suggest any foundational texts on hypermodernity in general? I’m considering starting with Non-Places by Marc Auge