Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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Baudrillard and the Situationists, by Alan N. Shapiro

June 27th, 2019 in the categories: Jean Baudrillard, Situationists

I will say something about the similarities and differences between the Situationist critical social theory of advanced or hyper-capitalism and consumerist media culture – the theory of “the society of the spectacle” and Jean Baudrillard’s theory of image, media and consumer culture – the theory of simulation, simulacra, virtuality, hyper-reality, Integral Reality, and “the models and codes precede the real.”
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Mobility and Science Fiction, by Alan N. Shapiro

June 27th, 2019 in the categories: Car of the Future, Future Design, Science Fiction Film

It is the self-driving car – and the way that it has come to inform the advanced technological imagination in our media culture – that I want to focus my attention on here. The autonomous vehicle has become one of the principal exemplars symbolizing the whole wide spectrum of self-aware technologies of Industry 4.0.
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Gestalt-Ideas at the Interface between Theory and Practice, by Alan N. Shapiro

June 25th, 2019 in the categories: Future Design

What is design as a “thinking discipline”? What is the relationship between “academic” ideas and the wider capitalist-practical-business society?
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Philosophie, Science und Ökologie: Whitehead und Merleau-Ponty über den Begriff der Natur, von Alan N. Shapiro

June 25th, 2019 in the categories: A. N. Whitehead, Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Vor etwa zehn Jahren begann ich mich intensiv für Kunstwerke und Kunstinstallationen zu interessieren, die Wissenschaften und Technologien in ihrer Konzeption und Ausführung mit einbezogen: Medienkunst, Electronic Art, Computerkunst, Videokunst, Bio Art, transgenic art, robotics art, telepresence art, ecosystems art und virtuelle Kunst.
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Fiktion ist der Schlüssel zu kreativen Lösungen, von Alan N. Shapiro

June 25th, 2019 in the categories: Fiction, Future Design

Der Triumph Donald Trumps als US-Präsidentschaftskandidat der Republikaner im Jahr 2016 veranschaulicht die wachsende und allgegenwärtige Konfusion zwischen dem ,Realen‘ und dem Virtuellen in der zeitgenössischen Geschichtssituation der Hypermoderne.
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Art Students Make Politics: 40 years since the 1977 movement of the „Metropolitan Indians“ in Italy, by Alan N. Shapiro

June 25th, 2019 in the categories: Feminist Theory, Performance Studies

In March 1977, art students from the DAMS Arts, Music and Theatre faculty (where Umberto Eco taught) of the University of Bologna participated in an art-, culture-, and ideas-inspired political movement called the „Metropolitan Indians“ (Indiani Metropolitani) or the „marginalized of society“ (gli emarginati).
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Gerry Coulter, Sophie Calle and Baudrillard’s “Pursuit in Venice”, by Alan N. Shapiro

June 25th, 2019 in the categories: Gerry Coulter, Jean Baudrillard, The Illusion Beyond Art

I did not know Gerry Coulter well personally. Yet I have considered him to be my friend. Our intellectual, political, and academic perspectives have been very close to one another. We have been comrades-in-arms, fighting for the same cause. We have both been engaged with Jean Baudrillard’s system of thought.
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Alan N. Shapiro racconta “Star Trek” (RAI4 Italian TV interview)

April 10th, 2017 in the categories: Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, Star Trek

Poliedrico studioso di tecnologia, fantascienza, media e filosofia contemporanea, americano di nascita ed europeo d’adozione, Alan N. Shapiro spiega l’importanza, i significati e il successo della saga di Gene Roddenberry, partendo dal suo innovativo e celeberrimo saggio Star Trek: Tecnologie della sparizione.
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Der Turing-Test und John Searles Gedankenexperiment vom chinesischen Zimmer, von Lulu Zhao

March 31st, 2017 in the categories: Artificial Intelligence

Durch die Entwicklung der Informatik und der Kognitions-Wissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert wurde die traditionelle Philosophie des Geistes Gegenstand wissenschaftlicher Erforschung. Diese Wandlung ist dabei auf eine Computer-Analogie des menschlichen Gehirns zurückführen. Als Ergebnis dieser Paradigmenwechsels entstand das Thema der künstlichen Intelligenz.
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New Book Published: “Transdisciplinary Design”, edited by Alan N. Shapiro

March 26th, 2017 in the categories: Future Design

My edited book "Transdisciplinary Design" (co-editors: Prof. Marion Digel and Irmi Wachendorff) has just been published by the Passagen Verlag of Vienna in their XMedia series. The Passagen Verlag is one of the leading publishers in the German-language countries of philosophy books, especially by "postmodern" and "deconstructionist" and "neo-Marxist" radical thinkers, such as Derrida, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek.
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Orwell, Baudrillard and Trump, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 19th, 2017 in the categories: Donald Trump, Jean Baudrillard

From a Baudrillardian perspective, one could say that the media themselves (not only the news media, but the media considered in their widest scope) – having promoted a culture of simulation and simulacra where words and images stand on their own and have no reference – are responsible for Trump.
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Blockchain Technology and Self-Driving Cars, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 19th, 2017 in the categories: Artificial Intelligence

The Internet which has boomed in the last 20 years developed at its beginnings without any conscious thought being given to issues like security, privacy, peer-to-peer transactions, intellectual property rights, digital rights management, creativity, entrepreneurship, and the handling and cultivation of value.
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Baudrillard und Trump: Agonie des Realen, von Alan N. Shapiro

February 18th, 2017 in the categories: Donald Trump, Jean Baudrillard

Es handelt sich hier um den fraktalen oder viralen Zustand von Simulakra der vierten Ordnung. Nach Baudrillard Post-Simulations-Erkenntnistheorie oder der "Simulationsepidemie" strahlt der Wert - wenn dieser Begriff noch angebracht ist - wie krebsartige Metastasen in alle Richtungen aus.
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Baudrillard und Trump: Simulation und Objektorientierung, nicht wahr und falsch, von Alan N. Shapiro

February 16th, 2017 in the categories: Donald Trump, Jean Baudrillard

Der Diskurs der Kritischen Theorie ist nicht brauchbar. Trump ist der Kandidat des Reality-Fernsehens, der Prominentenkultur, der Medienhyperrealitätsunterhaltung, jener 15 Minuten Ruhm für jedermann (Warhol), des "Transpolitischen" (Baudrillard) und der Objektorientierung (OO).
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“More After More: Essays Commemorating the Five Hundreth Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia”, edited by Ksenia Olkusz, Michał Kłosiński, and Krzysztof M. Maj

January 9th, 2017 in the categories: Utopian Studies

The book "More After More. Essays Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia" is the first volume of the new publishing series “Frontiers of Nowhere” designed by Facta Ficta Research Centre in Kraków (factaficta.org/en) to probe the boundaries of fictional world-building and contemporary narrative theories.
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