Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist

Blog and text archive about media theory, science fiction theory, future design, social choreography, Computer Science 2.0, new media art, robots and androids, Star Trek, The Prisoner, Jean Baudrillard, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Marshall McLuhan

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New Book Published by Geert Lovink’s Institute of Network Cultures

April 30th, 2011 in Category: Wikipedia

The essays, interviews and artworks brought together in this reader form part of the overarching Critical Point of View research initiative, which began with a conference in Bangalore (January 2010), followed by events in Amsterdam (March 2010) and Leipzig (September 2010).
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New York City in Las Vegas

April 30th, 2011 in Category: Photography

New York New York Las Vegas Casino & Hotel
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Multimedia Real-Time Live In-Play Sports Gambling

April 21st, 2011 in Category: Information Society, Sports Gambling

Sports gambling at the MGM Grand Casino-Hotel, Las Vegas
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Complementarity: An Archipelago, by Robin Parmar

April 15th, 2011 in Category: Quantum Culture

Robin Parmar is an intermedia artist whose practice incorporates electroacoustic composition, sound installations, improvisation, radiophonics, sonic ecology, poetry, performance art, theory and photography.
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Cyborg Spock

April 4th, 2011 in Category: Donna Haraway, Star Trek, The Original Series

Spock of "Star Trek: The Original Series" is the most perfect example of a cyborg in the sense described by Donna Haraway in her seminal essay. But for more than 40 years, no scholar has ever mentioned this. Why?
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Three Impressionist Paintings by Florence Morrison

April 1st, 2011 in Category: Painting

The singularity of this (the second of three) painting(s) is striking, yet it also reminds me of work products from Van Gogh's period in Arles.