Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist

Blog and text archive about media theory, science fiction theory, future design, social choreography, Computer Science 2.0, new media art, robots and androids, Star Trek, The Prisoner, Jean Baudrillard, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Marshall McLuhan

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Theses on Polysexuality

July 20th, 2010 in Category: Donna Haraway, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler, Polysexuality, Simone de Beauvoir

Polysexuality wants to build a bridge between the heterosexual majority and homosexual minorities. Polysexuality is about the sexual liberation of the majority, learning from practices and subcultural styles of queer minorities. The theory and practice of queer is very interesting, but it is not restricted to homosexuals.
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Lost: The Crash Out of Globalization and into the World

May 24th, 2010 in Category: Lost, Martin Heidegger, Media Studies, Polysexuality

Combining elements of drama, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, adventure, thriller and Reality-TV, "Lost" is arguably the most original and influential TV program since "Star Trek" in the 1960s.
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Richard Rorty on Radicalism, Liberalism, and Poetic Language

April 13th, 2010 in Category: Jacques Derrida, Language, Polysexuality, Richard Rorty

I was very impressed reading something that Richard Rorty wrote about revolutionaries in his essay "The Contingency of Community" ( in the book "Contingency, irony, and solidarity"). Rorty argues very cogently for a kind of “impossible” deconstructive synthesis of radicalism and liberalism.
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“Desperate Living” (film): John Waters’ Science Fiction Dystopia

April 13th, 2010 in Category: Media Studies, Polysexuality, Science Fiction Studies

Maybe it was the mono sound of my budget-priced video recorder, which the salesperson at Saturn Hansa had dubbed the 'Trabant' (der Trabi, das Symbol eines verschwundenen Landes, the symbol of a disappeared country, hat heute längst Kultstatus erreicht, has long since attained cult status) of VCRs.