Author: Alan N. Shapiro
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Venice in Las Vegas
My memoir book “Venice in Las Vegas: An American and European Auto-Socio-Biography, 1960s to 1980s” has been published in the Counterpoints Studies in Criticality series, edited by Shirley Steinberg, of the Peter Lang Publishing House.
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A Design Theory of the Smart Home of the Future
In addition to the structural consciousness of the smart home, activated by my functional consciousness, there can be the creative, phantasmal consciousness, given free play by my sensory imagination and expressed and merged with flexible phantasmal media applications.
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The Iran War is Not Taking Place (La Guerre d’Iran n’a pas lieu)
“The first casualty of war is the truth.” The new formulation: The first casualty of post-truth is the post-war or hyper-war calamity. It is the fractal, viral, pandemic-like catastrophe spreading in all directions like a cancerous metastasis once known as war.
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Six Reviews of “Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction”
Here are short excerpts from six reviews of my book “Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Post-Humanism,” and some other quotations about the book.
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Interview with Italian culture and philosophy magazine “Pandora Rivista”
We can become AI: think, speak, and act like AI. Then we are not only offloading our intelligence and creativity to AI; we are learning from the patterns of that “other” or “alien” intelligence. By meeting the AI in the middle and mimicking it, we co-create a hybrid expressivity or computational aesthetics.
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Tribute to Gerald Kogan
This is a revised version of the text that I read aloud at the memorial service honoring Jerry Kogan in early 2014. About 200 people who knew and loved Jerry were in attendance.