Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

Blog and project archive about media theory, science fiction theory, and creative coding

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The Paradigm of Object Spaces: Better Software is Coming, by Bernhard Angerer and Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0

Object Spaces is the start of the road towards making a qualitative revolution in computer science: a major upgrade in how software is made, and in the power of what it can do. Object Spaces takes on infrastructural challenges with an application-centered unified programming paradigm.
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How can we redefine information in the age of social media?, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Information Society, Social Media

On January 24, 2012, I was a keynote speaker at the BOBCATSSS conference on Information Management in Amsterdam. The conference was organised by students from 3 universities of applied sciences, namely Hogeschool van Amsterdam (NL), Hanze Hogeschool Groningen (NL), and Stuttgart Media University (GER).
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A Proposal for Developing Quantum Computing in Software, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Alexis Clancy, Humanities Informatics, Mathematics

The goal of quantum computing has been clearly and explicitly defined by computer scientists, but the mathematics of how to implement qubits and superposition states does not yet exist. It should be noted right away that most efforts to realize quantum computing are, in my view, too one-sidedly hardware-centric.
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Rules and Patterns System for Design Process Support Software, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0

It is necessary, in building towards a Design Process Support Software Application, to design and program a Rules and Pattern System as an extreme form of bottom-up object-oriented intelligence (pragmatic AI) that has a direct relationship between perception and action without a guiding top-down intelligence.
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Improving the Information Society Through Awareness of Languages, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Information Society, Language

This is the text of a paper that I presented at the ISEA2011 festival of new media, electronic and digital arts in Istanbul, Turkey on September 21, 2011.
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Design for a Working Quantum Computer in Software, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0

A Quantum/Real World Software System with Similarity-Based Dynamic Objects
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Transforming Computer Science into a Humanities Subject, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Humanities Informatics

Despite its name, Computer Science is so far only an engineering discipline. Computer Science excluded art and sociology at its foundation, making itself into a strictly technical engineering practice, the tweaking of bits and bytes. We need a New Computer Science that integrates art and sociology at a fundamental level.
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Cultural Citizenship in Contemporary America, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 12th, 2013 in the categories: Consumer Culture, Jean Baudrillard

The damaged life of the fragmented individual, performing his duties in the system of production, is circumscribed by a universe of self-referential images and solipsistic spaces which sustain his socialization in that system.
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Re-Thinking Science, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 11th, 2013 in the categories: Rethinking Science

Influenced by Heidegger’s “The Question Concerning Technology,” Adorno and Horkheimer’s "Dialectic of Enlightenment," and Kubrick and Clarke’s "2001: A Space Odyssey," I believe that we have come to the end of the long era of technology being conceived and developed as a tool for the ‘domination of nature’.
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Building Robots, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 10th, 2013 in the categories: Robotism

I will now outline a programme of 7 concrete near-term steps that a large robotics manufacturing company should take on the road towards introducing robots-slash-androids to the consumer public.
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International Flusser Lecture, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 9th, 2013 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0, Media Studies

On July 10, 2012, I gave the International Flusser Lecture at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Related to this lecture, a small book by me in German will be published in the International Flusser Lecture series by the Walther Koenig Verlag.
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Towards a Unified Existential Science of Humans and Androids, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 8th, 2013 in the categories: Androids & Artificial Life, Robotism

There are two ways of thinking about robots or androids, distinguished by the different associations evoked by the two terms robot and android. We want to synthesize the two perspectives.
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Seminar on the Future of Reading and Learning at the Offenbach Arts and Design University

February 2nd, 2013 in the categories: Seminars

This page provides information to the students in the seminar. Last updated December 30th.
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Art and Design in the Age of New Media and New Technologies, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 1st, 2013 in the categories: Future Design

Audio recording of my January 16th, 2013 lecture at the Bath Spa University, Bath School of Art and Design. "A very important and significant manifestation of your thought. The most coherent and systematic comments about technology, ALife and science [in a lecture by you so far]." -- Nolan Bazinet