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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The Car of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro and Alan Cholodenko

February 15th, 2012 in Category: 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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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.