Neo-Medievalism Explained [electronic resource].

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Neo-Medievalism Explained [electronic resource].

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Fall Semester 2016

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A super-computational grid overlaying the earth’s surface, an all-seeing, floating ecosystem, an Uber-planet, an internet of things in which the things are us, is recording and storing our every movement. We subscribe to it—willingly providing it with our data. By the same token, our immersion in the permanence of the informational mayhem is flooding us with fictions. On the one hand, theoretically, the permanent input channel of billions of facts per second—GPS coordinates, heartbeats, selfies, currency fluctuations, etc.— into the super-computational megastructure, is always pushing for a transparent world. In that world “truth” would cease to be a word because there would be records of everything. On the other hand, the database could never completely suppress…
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Cloud computing
Geopolitics
Transborder Data Flows

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Metahaven
Antonia Wright
Marcos Valella
Odalis Valdivieso
Angela Valella
Felice Grodin

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