Category: Art and Economics

  • Technological Anarchism, by Alan N. Shapiro

    My intention is to write a book developing the transdisciplinary concept of Technological Anarchism as an optimistic, normative, heterotopian (a term of Michel Foucault) idea of a near-future and open-ended social, logistical, and economic system of Post-Scarcity and Post-Capitalism.

  • As Creators Make Money, They Will Transform What Money Is, by Alan N. Shapiro

    Warhol was wildly interested in money, and there is even a book on this subject, entitled Andy Warhol: Making Money. He made a prolific series of paintings of U.S. dollar bills and dollar signs. Vincent Fremont explains that Warhol wanted to transform the vulgar symbol of Wall Street’s greedy dollar “into beautiful paintings and drawings.”

  • Creative Commons: The Next Generation, by Alan N. Shapiro

    Building on top of copyright as it has been conceived and implemented in our legal traditions, Creative Commons offers a palette of six different standardized licenses developed by specialist lawyers that change the name of the game of intellectual property rights protection from ‘all rights reserved’ to ‘some rights reserved’.

  • Towards the Internet of Creators, by Alan N. Shapiro

    We don’t yet have an Internet where the creator of a photograph, a video, a piece of music, a segment of software code, a digital artwork, a journalistic piece, or a writerly composition is identified by a special authentication signature or a certificate of ownership.