Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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Dalla cultura digitale alla cultura quantistica, di Alan N. Shapiro

July 7th, 2015 in the categories: Quantum Culture

Partiamo dal presupposto che stiamo vivendo in una Cultura Digitale e che questo è il limite del confine, una sorta di non plus ultra ('niente più in là') per lo sviluppo della società contemporanea. Ma secondo la mia analisi di ciò che sta accadendo, e di quali tendenze future stiano emergendo, non è effettivamente così. Quel che risulta dalla cosiddetta cultura digitale, credo, è ciò che io chiamo la Cultura del Quanto. Che diavolo è questo?
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From Digital Culture to Quantum Culture, by Alan N. Shapiro

July 3rd, 2015 in the categories: Quantum Culture

The only way to really understand the digital, and to understand Digital Culture, would be to have a perspective beyond the digital. We would need to compare and contrast the digital to a third paradigm of technology, a third paradigm of culture, a third paradigm of everything: the Quantum.
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Complementarity: An Archipelago, by Robin Parmar

April 15th, 2011 in the categories: Quantum Culture

Robin Parmar is an intermedia artist whose practice incorporates electroacoustic composition, sound installations, improvisation, radiophonics, sonic ecology, poetry, performance art, theory and photography.
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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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Science Fiction in Venice: Future Venue of the Quantum Culture Conference

January 9th, 2011 in the categories: Quantum Culture

In my Science-Fictional-Becoming-Real imagination, the Quantum Culture and Quantum Thinking conference in Venice will take place at the Liassidi Palace hotel.
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Conference on Quantum Culture in Venice

December 31st, 2010 in the categories: Quantum Culture

I have had enough of conferences about Digital Culture. During this Vaporetto ride, the answer dawns on me: we need to develop the paradigm of Quantum Culture. Curate a conference on Quantum Culture and Quantum Thinking. The conference will take place in Venice.