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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“Point, Click, Love”: A Novel by Molly Shapiro

January 14th, 2012 in Category: American Literature, Fiction, Social Media

Other commentators will talk about the "chick lit" dimension of the novel "Point, Click, Love." I will talk about the book’s intellectual side.
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“I Bring Philosophy and Biotechnology into the Sphere of Art”: Polona Tratnik interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro

January 13th, 2012 in Category: The Illusion Beyond Art

On December 17, 2011, I interviewed the Slovenian artist and media culture-cultural studies professor Polona Tratnik in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Introduction to Polona Tratnik, by Anja Wiesinger

January 12th, 2012 in Category: The Illusion Beyond Art

Being a signifier for health, fruition, and beauty, hair also fulfills an aesthetic function. It is a medium with tactile qualities, associated with intimacy on the one hand, and with the abject on the other hand.