Alan N. Shapiro
media theory,
science fiction theory,
future design research
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Alan Shapiro, “Die Software der Zukunft”: Buchrezension von Florian Arnold
Seit jeher schlägt sich die menschliche Kultur mit einem Anderen ihrer selbst herum. Bis vor Kurzem durfte man noch einhellig der Meinung sein, es handele sich dabei um ,die Natur‘, verstanden als vorkultureller Ursprung der Kultur und womöglich deren versöhnliches Ende.
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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.”
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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’.
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Die Software der Zukunft, von Alan N. Shapiro
Meine Vorgehensweise ist prinzipiell transdisziplinär. Transdisziplinarität ist nicht dasselbe wie Interdisziplinarität. Ich denke, dass Interdisziplinarität ineffizient ist, weil sie impliziert, dass es lediglich Dialoge und Kooperationen zwischen bereits existierenden Disziplinen bzw. akademischen Wissenschaftsbereichen bedarf, um Wissensentwicklung voranzutreiben.
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Discover America und die Idee der Baudrillard-Company, von Alan N. Shapiro
Baudrillards Amerika ist – um es einmal vorsichtig auszudrücken – nicht wirklich gut angekommen. Die verärgerte Rezeption durch eine Fülle von Kritikern hat erheblich zur negativen Seite von Baudrillards Doppel-Reputation als führender Philosoph einerseits und angeblich unseriöser Lieferant rhetorischer Nichtigkeiten andererseits beigetragen.
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Dalla cultura digitale alla cultura quantistica, di Alan N. Shapiro
Nei nostri discorsi quotidiano e anche nel nostro dibattito accademico, molto spesso usiamo il termine Cultura Digitale. Cultura Digitale significa tecnologia ovunque. La tecnologia sta rimodellando ogni aspetto dell’esistenza umana e sociale. Cultura Digitale è la società dell’informazione e la vita “online”.
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From Digital Culture to Quantum Culture, by Alan N. Shapiro
In our everyday discourse and even in our academic discourse, we very often use the term Digital Culture. Digital Culture means technology everywhere. Technology is reshaping every aspect of human and social existence. Digital Culture is the information society and online life. Digital Culture is social media like Facebook and mobile communications like smartphones.
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Jean Baudrillard and Albert Camus on the Simulacrum of Taking a Stance on War, by Alan N. Shapiro
Unlike other thinkers such as Chomsky, Baudrillard is not ‘against war’. Baudrillard’s position is rather that of being ‘neither for nor against’ contemporary hyper-real mediatized wars, and seeing the imperative of choosing whether one is ‘for’ or ‘against’ war as being something of a forced and imposed simulacrum.
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Ruben Talberg‘s volte-face paintings “Arcanum”, by Alan N. Shapiro
An artwork from Ruben Talberg’s series “Arcanum” suggests a multi-nodal secret that can only become known to the initiated few. The work hints at presenting the key to solving a mystery, providing an answer to a riddle that is accessible via magic, mysticism and a very personalized meditation practice filtered through classical spiritual traditions.
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Star Trek: Technologien des Verschwindens, von Alan N. Shapiro
Star Trek is die verbreiteste “Ikone” der technologischen Kultur. Zu den größten Fans gehören Physiker, Ingenieure, Informatiker, Grafikkünstler und Medienschaffende. Doch die ursprüngliche Kreativät von Star Trek wird von der Star Trek-Industrie neutralisiert.
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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.
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Transdisciplinary Code and Objects, by Alan N. Shapiro
In Impossible Exchange, Baudrillard separates his system of thought from ‘neo-Marxist critical theory’, which, on the whole, is also a subject-centered perspective (although one could definitely find an ‘object-centered perspective’ in the original texts of ‘Frankfurt School’ thinkers like T.W. Adorno).
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The development of New Music theory and philosophy with focus on the American composer John Cage, by Marit Trantel
Cage was one of the most important composers of New Music and helped to revolutionise the concept of traditional classical music entirely. Important for this revolution was also the philosophy that stood behind his music and which is intricately linked to his “compositions“.
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“Nature Disappears Beneath Our Words and Images”: Nicola Toffolini interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro
That makes me think of two different meanings of the word ‘performance’. In the theatre, you are doing the performance. In your artwork, the technical specialists who construct the artefacts that you have designed are performing the artwork, in the sense that they are implementing the design.
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“I Bring Philosophy and Biotechnology into the Sphere of Art”: Polona Tratnik interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro
You use the phrase “engagements in culture” at your website to describe some of what you do. Is this idea a way of connecting together your two careers as an artist and as a professor of media culture and cultural studies?
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