Author: Alan N. Shapiro
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How to Regulate the Media when they are ubiquitous and have gone viral: from utopian science fiction to practical European policy
This is the text of the keynote speech that I gave at the European Union conference “Pluralism and Responsibility: Media in the Digital Society” in Berlin on July 7, 2020. I was invited to speak by Monika Grütters, the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
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Interview with Artist Network Theory
AXELLE: We met in a media theory course you gave in Lucerne at the HSLU where I was a student in the masters design program. I was struggling to legitimate my position as an artist entering the field of design in a program which at the time had no face, no position, and no theory.
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Some Visions of Post-Capitalism
The book that I have read about Marx that most inspired me was Marx’s Theory of Alienation by the Hungarian Marxist philosopher István Mészáros, published in 1970. Mészáros argues that the first full-fledged elaboration of Marx’s philosophical system is to be found in the theory of alienated labour of the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844.
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From mass advertising to personalized advertising: the Billboard Cage Project of Christos Voutichtis
The billboard is like a theatrical stage. It is an exhibition space, a seductive or informative representation of a product or service or venue, or a simulation drawing attention to itself and becoming its own hyper-reality. It is a large advertising structure on the side of the highway or in the middle of the city.
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Is Trump a Fascist or is He the Parody of Fascism?
This is the text of my speech at the virtual conference “Trump, Television and the Media: From Drama to Fake News to Tweetstorms” organized by London Metropolitan University which took place on 30-31 October 2020.
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From Sociology to Media Studies to Software Studies, part one
I disagree with Kittler’s statement that there is no software. In my view, just because the kernel or center of computing is rational and computational and digital-binary does not mean that all the other layers, languages, and interfaces of the system, and which surround the kernel, must obey or follow that logic.