Alan N. Shapiro
media theory,
science fiction theory,
future design research
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Orientation, von Anja Vögerl
“Orientation” ist die dritte Folge der zweiten Staffel der US TV-Sendung “LOST”. Die Episode enthält zwei verschiedene Handlungsstränge, die auf verschiedenen Seiten der Insel stattfinden, sowie John Lockes Flashback. In diesem Aufsatz soll zuerst der Inhalt der Folge wiedergegeben, danach der Konflikt zwischen Jack und Locke.
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Jets’ Playoff Chances
Consider the scenario of the Bengals beating the Steelers then losing to the Ravens. The Cincinnati-Pittsburgh tiebreaker at 9-7 will be decided by won-long percentage within the division. The Steelers are 2-2 now and would finish 3-3. The Bengals are 1-3 now and would finish 2-4. The Steelers would be #2 in their division.
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Twenty Basic Principles of a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro
The disasters that we are facing in the areas of ecology, energy and the environment are well-known and they are truly horrific. However, the fact that everyone knows about these disasters is more a factor contributing to nothing constructive been done about them than it is a factor contributing to something being done about them.
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Towards a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro
On October 11, 2012, I gave a lecture called “Towards a New Green Politics” at the Digital Art department of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Here is the Abstract of the talk, and some of my lecture notes.
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The Plane of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro, and Congetture minime sullo spazi-tempo, by Pier Luigi Capucci
In airports as they are today, the passengers experience the terrible inconvenience of going through the security check of their carry-on luggage. This security system – the purpose of which is, of course, absolutely vital to the prevention of terrorist incidents and hijackings – is designed like an assembly line in a factory.
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What’s the Use of Unrequited Love?, by Vesela Mihaylova
The subject of this thesis has its roots in a personal experience. I fell in love, but I was not loved in return and I had to ask myself what was the use or the sense of this love. The affair ended, and I decided to apply my emotions and feelings into an artistic project.
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Inter-disciplinary or Trans-disciplinary? by Nolan Bazinet
The discourse of reconciling two epistemologically disparate cultures (the humanities and the natural sciences) has come a long way. From the unfortunate decade of the 1990s when such a discourse – or rather, emotionally-charged debate – was dubbed ‘The Science Wars’ to today’s debates, intellectuals from both camps are finally attempting to bridge a divide.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 4 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger and Alan N. Shapiro
We would like to look into the timeliness of the computer, the rhythm created by the machine and by the user, and the perception of time produced in the interaction between user and machine. Computers don’t have a concept of time as we know it.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 3 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger
The Optical Unconscious in Walter Benjamin’s writing appears first in „A little history of photography“ (1931). Benjamin describes how photography evolved from the portrait photography of the middle of the 19th century to the Paris recordings by Eugene Agdet’s in the 1920s to the applications of the mass media.
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 2 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger
The object of analysis is a digital image archive. I chose ARTstor, the biggest online image library for research and education. ARTstor collaborates worldwide with other institutions to include as many collections as possible. The non-profit organization was founded in 2003, out of the urgency to make image material available by the Internet.
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Time, Memory, Experience (part 1 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger
In my Master’s Thesis in Art History, done at the Technical University of Berlin in 2011, I attempted to revise the theories and concepts that arose in the advent of the Internet in the early 1990s, when the Internet emerged from a blank canvas and served as a projection for dreams about utopian cyberspace.
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The Car of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro and Alan Cholodenko
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.
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A New Computer Science is Underway: Alan N. Shapiro interviewed by Anja Wiesinger
Published in the Berlin fashion print magazine, Fall 2010 (in German and English). American philosopher and veteran software engineer Alan Shapiro reflects on computer science in relation to the history of ideas it originated from.
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On the Sociology of Music, by Alan N. Shapiro and Chris Williams
Here we make the first presentation of our ideas about the reality of popular music in contemporary society. But what is reality? What is the relationship between reality and mediality? Between reality and virtuality? Between reality and simulations? What is music in the context of our social system of consumer culture?
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Radical skepticism and the logic of Shakespeare’s artistry, by Robert Schneider
Robert Schneider is the author of a book-length reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice called Shylock, The Roman. This book is important as a basis for investigating the relationship between Shakespeare and Star Trek as twin canonical texts of what universities call “Western Civ.”
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