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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The Plane of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro, and Congetture minime sullo spazi-tempo, by Pier Luigi Capucci

July 21st, 2012 in the categories: Future Design

Dall'Ars Electronica FUTURELAB ci sono stati commissionati dei testi per una installazione artistica presso il nuovo terminale dell'Aeroporto di Vienna. Il tema dell'installazione era "Zeit/Raum" ("Tempo/Spazio"), ed è stato realizzato anche un e-book interattivo con tutti i contributi.
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The Car of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro and Alan Cholodenko

February 15th, 2012 in the categories: Car of the Future, Donna Haraway, Future Design, Gregory Bateson, Marshall McLuhan, Paul Virilio, Real/Virtual Reality

In November 2008, Alan N. Shapiro was invited by Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany to speak about his ideas about "the car of the future." He spoke in front of an audience of people from the Human-Machine Interface Dept. and and the Infotainment Dept. This text was written as accompaniment to that presentation.
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Anticipating the Future through Knowledge of the Fiction in Social Reality, by Alan N. Shapiro

November 17th, 2011 in the categories: Future Design

I was the keynote speaker at the conference on "Das Wissen der Zukunft" ("Knowledge of the Future") that took place at the University of Vienna on November 4-5, 2011. These are the lecture notes for my speech.
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General Patton Memorial Museum

June 30th, 2011 in the categories: Museum of the Future, War & Peace

I felt that the General Patton Memorial Museum, and especially the "Ed Hastey Military Vehicle Park" next to it, has some elements embodying the basic principle of the "Museum of the Future" as I conceive it.
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I am physically in Las Vegas, Nevada, but I am really in Venice, Italy

March 31st, 2011 in the categories: Architecture, Quantum Culture

The reality of what Las Vegas architecture has achieved exceeds the intentions of the casino hotel owners. Venice is no longer restricted to its physical location in the region of Veneto in northern Italy.
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Morality in Europe Today

February 5th, 2011 in the categories: Music, University of the Future

There is a crisis of liberalism in Europe today. Liberalism and radicalism need each other. It is not a question of giving up one for the other, as so many activists and intellectuals in our history unfortunately did.
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Beaubourg, Quai Branly, and the Simulacrum of Jean Baudrillard, by René Capovin

October 23rd, 2010 in the categories: Architecture, Jean Baudrillard

"Quai Branly is a remake of Beaubourg, in a different field of art. Whereas Beaubourg is a perfect institution in the field of modern art (as Baudrillard himself explicitly says – the first part of my essay is dedicated to his famous 1977 article on Beaubourg), Quai Branly is a perfect institution in the field of 'primitive art'."
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Die Bibliothek der Zukunft – The Library of the Future, von/by Alan N. Shapiro

October 20th, 2010 in the categories: Future Design, Library of the Future

The concept of libraries as they are is in many ways obsolete. I am speaking about university libraries, public libraries, and online libraries. Recently, I looked closely at the websites of about 150 university libraries, primarily in the USA, but also in the UK, Australia, Germany, and other European and Asian countries.
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The Car of the Future, folding study, by Nick Pugh

August 5th, 2010 in the categories: Car of the Future, Future Design

Visualisations by the virtuoso concept artist-designer Nick Pugh.
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The Car of the Future, alternate modes, by Nick Pugh

August 5th, 2010 in the categories: Car of the Future, Future Design

Visualisations by the virtuoso concept artist-designer Nick Pugh
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The Car of the Future, detail sketches, by Nick Pugh

August 4th, 2010 in the categories: Car of the Future, Future Design

Visualisations by the virtuoso concept artist-designer Nick Pugh.
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The Car of the Future, more sketches, by Nick Pugh

July 22nd, 2010 in the categories: Car of the Future

Visualisations by the virtuoso concept artist-designer Nick Pugh.
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Sketches of the Car of the Future, by Nick Pugh

May 26th, 2010 in the categories: Car of the Future, Future Design

Visualisations by the virtuoso concept artist-designer Nick Pugh.
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The Car of the Future is a Virtual Reality Game Platform

May 26th, 2010 in the categories: Car of the Future, Future Design, Paul Virilio

In our concept of the Car of the Future, people will use their cars a good deal of the time for activities that take place in a virtual reality environment, and less for the physical activity of getting from point A to point B. This will have the direct outcome that less petroleum will be used, and less pollution will be given off.
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The Car of the Future is a Shapeshifter, by Nick Pugh

May 26th, 2010 in the categories: Car of the Future, Future Design

As population continues to increase and our cities become ever more dense the need will arise to develop new technologies that actively compact and minimize the products we use, especially the automobile.
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