​​#hyperreal
​​Thriving in a heavily mediated society
​​This learning circle meets in Brooklyn every other Wednesday starting April 18 for a total of six sessions.
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​​For each session:

​​To Enroll:

​​Community Rules:

  • ​​a book chapter or video will be given to you to study before the meeting
  • ​​a place to discuss will be provided, and
  • ​​a space for personal reflection and comment is curated
  • ​​text your name to 917-512-1486 via signal
  • ​​you’ll be added to the group
  • ​​Free and open to all
  • ​​Safe space for queers and PoCs 
  • ​​If you don’t study the assignment, please make space for those who do
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​​Session 1

​​Wednesday 4/18/2018, 7-9pm
​​at June Bar (259 St Nicholas Ave)
  • ​​Dude, You Broke the Future
  • ​​video, 57 minutes, watch
  • ​​Simulacra and Simulation
  • ​​The Precession of Simulacra, page 3
  • ​​The Divine Irreference of Images, page 4

​​Video Reflection Questions

​​Check instructions below
  • ​​What are they key words/terms from the materials and the conversation?
  • ​​Can we come up with a scripted method to unmask simulation?
  • ​​Do you know your fallback paradigm or framework that you use as a ethical compass?
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​​Session 2

​​Wednesday 5/2/2018, 7-9pm 
​​at 375 Menahan Street (view map)
​​Society of Spectacle
  • ​​Chapter 1: The Culmination of Separation
  • ​​Chapter 2: The Commodity as Spectacle
  • ​​Chapter 6: Spetacular Time

​​Video Reflection Questions

​​Check instructions below
  • ​​Is Debord’s Spectacle same as Baudrillard’s Hyperreal? In what they differ?
  • ​​Can the spectacle ever serve to confirm life?
  • ​​Regarding augmented survival, how it makes original survival harder?
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​​Session 3

​​Wednesday 5/16/2018, 7-9pm 
​​at 375 Menahan Street (view map)
​​The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility
​​download PDF
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​​Session 4

​​Wednesday 6/6/2018, 7-9pm
​​at June Bar (view map)
​​Understanding Media - The Extensions of Man
  • ​​The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis
  • ​​Challenge and Collapse: The Nemesis of Creativity