Day: June 27, 2019

  • Science-Fiction-Replikatoren: Additive Fertigung und die Ökonomie der Zukunft, von Alan N. Shapiro

    This was the text of my keynote speech at the conference of the Swiss Manufacturing Association in October 2018. Sozialismus ist schiefgegangen. Kapitalismus muss sich verändern. Der europäische Kapitalismus hat Angst davor, von Asien überholt zu werden. Wie also sieht die Vision für den europäischen Kapitalismus aus, um sich erfolgreich weiter zu entwickeln?

  • Baudrillard and the Situationists, by Alan N. Shapiro

    What are the similarities and differences between the Situationist theory of hyper-capitalism and consumerist media culture – the theory of “the society of the spectacle” – and Jean Baudrillard’s theory of image, media and consumer culture – the theory of simulation, simulacra, virtuality, hyper-reality, Integral Reality, and “the models and codes precede the real”?

  • Mobility and Science Fiction, by Alan N. Shapiro

    The term “digitalization” accurately describes the technologies of the past several decades which we already have, like the automation of the office and other work processes, and Personal Computers and the Internet. The next wave of “futurist” technologies is better described with a term like the Fourth Industrial Revolution or self-aware technologies.