Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

Blog and project archive about media theory, science fiction theory, and creative coding

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

July 18th, 2015 in the categories: Art and Economics

The pressing question for future design thinking is this: What ideas from social theory can sanction and incite the ‘Next Generation’ of the Creative Commons trajectory? Can we think of the configuration of the tandem of creativity and economics in a new and different way?
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Die Software der Zukunft, von Alan N. Shapiro

July 16th, 2015 in the categories: Software Studies

Transdisziplinarität ist nicht dasselbe wie Interdisziplinarität. Interdisziplinarität ist ineffizient, weil sie impliziert, dass es lediglich Dialoge und Kooperationen zwischen bereits existierenden Disziplinen bedarf, um Wissensentwicklung voranzutreiben. Meine Überzeugung ist dagegen, dass das Wissen verschiedener Disziplinen zunächst zusammengebracht werden muss, um dann tiefergehend überdacht zu werden.
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Discover America und die Idee der Baudrillard-Company, von Alan N. Shapiro

July 16th, 2015 in the categories: Jean Baudrillard

Die beiden wesentlichen Kreisläufe sind die Mobilität (Autos etc.) und der Bildschirm (Fernsehen etc.) – Geschwindigkeit und Virtualität – das Kinetische und das Filmische. Automobile, nicht Menschen, sind die wahren Einwohner erster Klasse der hypermodernen Megalopolis (wie Marshall McLuhan bereits in den 1960er Jahren schrieb), ebenso wie Computernetzwerke und Medientechnologie.
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Dalla cultura digitale alla cultura quantistica, di Alan N. Shapiro

July 7th, 2015 in the categories: Quantum Culture

Partiamo dal presupposto che stiamo vivendo in una Cultura Digitale e che questo è il limite del confine, una sorta di non plus ultra ('niente più in là') per lo sviluppo della società contemporanea. Ma secondo la mia analisi di ciò che sta accadendo, e di quali tendenze future stiano emergendo, non è effettivamente così. Quel che risulta dalla cosiddetta cultura digitale, credo, è ciò che io chiamo la Cultura del Quanto. Che diavolo è questo?
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From Digital Culture to Quantum Culture, by Alan N. Shapiro

July 3rd, 2015 in the categories: Quantum Culture

The only way to really understand the digital, and to understand Digital Culture, would be to have a perspective beyond the digital. We would need to compare and contrast the digital to a third paradigm of technology, a third paradigm of culture, a third paradigm of everything: the Quantum.
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Jean Baudrillard and Albert Camus on the Simulacrum of Taking a Stance on War, by Alan N. Shapiro

July 3rd, 2015 in the categories: War & Peace

Unlike some other thinkers, Jean 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.