Alan N. Shapiro, Autonomy in the Digital Society

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

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Alan Shapiro, “Die Software der Zukunft”: Buchrezension von Florian Arnold

September 12th, 2015 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0

Shapiros Überlegungen machen deutlich, dass wir es tatsächlich mit einem anderen Anderen zu tun bekämen; einem Anderen, das uns nicht mehr als die Projektionsfläche unserer eigenen Ängste und Hoffnungen dienen würde.
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“Die Software der Zukunft,” new book by Alan Shapiro

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0, Future Design

Mit seiner "Software der Zukunft" pladiert der Informatiker und Medientheoretiker Alan Shapiro für eine partizipatorisch realisierte Neuausrichtung der Informatik. Dies wäre eine Informatik der "rechten Gehirnhälfte", die zwar auf der bestehenden, technisch ausgerichteten Wissenschaft vom Computer aufbaut, sie aber näher an die Disziplinen Kunst, Soziologie, Philosophie und Kulturtheorie heranrückt.
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Software Code as Expanded Narration, by Alan N. Shapiro

May 17th, 2014 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0

Computer programming is about algorithms, formal logic, precise reasoning and problem solving. As such, it would appear to have little to do with what we call creative expression. The logical act of programming and the self-expressive act of creativity would seem to be polar opposites.
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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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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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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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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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Time-Memory-Experience (part 4 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger and Alan N. Shapiro

June 9th, 2012 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0, Media Studies

Let us now take a look at the specific modes of time of the computer. In what comes next we would like to look into the timeliness of the computer itself, the rhythm created by the machine and by the user, and, lastly, the perception of time produced in the interaction between user and machine.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 2 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger

April 24th, 2012 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0, Media Studies

ARTstor hence differs from a traditional archive, altering the traditional functions of an archive to become also a social media in which the material is constantly reworked, newly sorted, and transformed.
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Time, Memory, Experience (part 1 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger

April 24th, 2012 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0, Media Studies

My project is to revise the theories and concepts that arose in the advent of the Internet in the early 1990s, when the Internet emerged from a blank canvas and served as a projection for dreams about utopian cyberspace. Have these theories of New Media and New Technologies stood the test of time?
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A New Computer Science is Underway: Alan N. Shapiro interviewed by Anja Wiesinger

February 15th, 2012 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0

American philosopher and veteran software engineer Alan Shapiro reflects on computer science in relation to the history of ideas it originated from.