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	<title>Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist</title>
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	<description>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</description>
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		<title>Media theory: beyond the dualities of form and content, critical and enthusiastic, real and fake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 26, 2012, I gave a lecture in the Speakers&#8217; Series of the Centre for the Study of Theory, Culture and Politics at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Trent University Centre for the Study of Theory, Culture and Politics
My topic was: &#8220;Media theory: beyond the dualities of form and content, critical and enthusiastic, real [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alan-shapiro.com/media-theory-beyond-the-dualities-of-form-and-content-critical-and-enthusiastic-real-and-fake/</link>
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		<title>How can we redefine information in the age of social media?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 24, 2012, I was a keynote speaker at the BOBCATSSS conference on Information Management of the organization of European university libraries in Amsterdam.
On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, BOBCATSSS 2012 was organised by students  from three universities of applied sciences, namely Hogeschool van Amsterdam  (NL), Hanze Hogeschool Groningen (NL), and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alan-shapiro.com/how-can-we-redefine-information-in-the-age-of-social-media/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Point, Click, Love&#8221;: A Novel by Molly Shapiro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Video of Molly Shapiro interviewed on Fox News TV
Point, Click, Love amazon home page
More about Molly Shapiro
Molly Shapiro is my first cousin, the daughter of my father’s brother. I have known Molly since she was a baby, in the 1970s. They called her Molly-Dolly.
Molly graduated from Brown University where she majored in semiotics, and from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alan-shapiro.com/point-click-love-a-novel-by-molly-shapiro/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I Bring Philosophy and Biotechnology into the Sphere of Art&#8221;: Polona Tratnik interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Polona Tratnik interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro
On December 17, 2011, I interviewed the Slovenian artist and media culture-cultural studies professor Polona Tratnik in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Alan N. Shapiro: You use the phrase “engagements in culture” at your website to describe some of what you do. Is this idea a way of connecting together your two careers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alan-shapiro.com/polona-tratnik-interviewed-by-alan-n-shapiro/</link>
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		<title>Introduction to Polona Tratnik, by Anja Wiesinger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction to Polona Tratnik, by Anja Wiesinger
Hair is a special material. In a biological sense, being part of the human skin, it regulates the body temperature. It is home to millions of bacteria that interchange with the environment and help build the body&#8217;s resistance to harmful organisms. Hair is not able to grow or continue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alan-shapiro.com/introduction-to-polona-tratnik-by-anja-wiesinger/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Nature Disappears Beneath Our Words and Images&#8221;: Nicola Toffolini interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicola Toffolini interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro
On November 11, 2011, I interviewed the Italian artist Nicola Toffolini in Bologna, Italy. I spoke in English, and Nicola spoke in Italian. I have translated his comments into English.
Alan N. Shapiro: Since about the year 2000, you have been doing exhibitions of your artwork. How did it come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From The Technological Herbarium, by Gianna Maria Gatti: Artworks of Nicola Toffolini</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Technological Herbarium, by Gianna Maria Gatti: Artworks of Nicola Toffolini
Nicola Toffolini&#8217;s Naturale che piove: fare il bello ed il cattivo tempo (It&#8217;s Raining, Naturally: Making Good and Bad Weather)
translated from the Italian by Alan N. Shapiro
Nicola Toffolini works on the nature-technology marriage by elaborating singular ecosystems enclosed in glass and aluminium cases of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alan-shapiro.com/nicola-toffolinis-naturale-che-piove-fare-il-bello-ed-il-cattivo-tempo-its-raining-naturally-making-good-and-bad-weather-by-gianna-maria-gatti/</link>
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		<title>Impressionist Paintings by Florence Morrison, Installment 3</title>
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		<title>Anticipating the Future through Knowledge of the Fiction in Social Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was the keynote speaker at the conference on &#8220;Das Wissen der Zukunft&#8221; (&#8220;Knowledge of the Future&#8221;) that took place at the University of Vienna on November 4-5, 2011.
Conference Program
This was a great conference, with lots of truly stellar presentations.
Ramón Reichert and Eva Horn did a fantastic job organizing the conference.

My topic was &#8220;Anticipating the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alan-shapiro.com/anticipating-the-future-through-knowledge-of-the-fiction-in-social-reality/</link>
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		<title>Alan N. Shapiro interviewed by Mattia Nicoletti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 3, 2011, Alan N. Shapiro was interviewed by the Italian journalist Mattia Nicoletti for the Milanese daily newspaper Il Metro Quotidiano.
This is the English version of the interview that appeared in Italian.
Mattia Nicoletti: Can technology be predicted? How can Star Trek have a vision about future technologies?
Alan N. Shapiro: Technologies of today were inspired [...]]]></description>
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