Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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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.
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Ruben Talberg‘s volte-face paintings “Arcanum”, by Alan N. Shapiro

June 19th, 2015 in the categories: Painting

An artwork piece from Ruben Talberg’s series “Arcanum” suggests an important 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

June 19th, 2015 in the categories: Star Trek

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

April 25th, 2015 in the categories: Art and Economics

The Berlin-based art-media-technology startup company Ascribe GmbH brings to our attention the fact that the Internet that we have is missing a crucial ownership layer for creators. 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, 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

April 18th, 2015 in the categories: Software Studies

In their book Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life, Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge examine the explosive invasion of information about ourselves into our everyday lives, and the increasingly ubiquitous availability of this information to institutions and strangers through many standalone, networked, peripheral, handheld and mobile devices.
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The development of New Music theory and philosophy with focus on the American composer John Cage, by Marit Trantel

March 9th, 2015 in the categories: The Illusion Beyond Art

I will explore how John Cage’s music and his philosophy relate with other theories of New Media philosophy. Cage was one of the most important composers of New Music and helped to revolutionise the concept of traditional classical music entirely.
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“Nature Disappears Beneath Our Words and Images”: Nicola Toffolini interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro

September 7th, 2014 in the categories: The Illusion Beyond Art

I interviewed the Italian artist Nicola Toffolini in Bologna, Italy. I spoke in English, and Nicola spoke in Italian. I have translated his comments into English.
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“I Bring Philosophy and Biotechnology into the Sphere of Art”: Polona Tratnik interviewed by Alan N. Shapiro

September 7th, 2014 in the categories: The Illusion Beyond Art

I interviewed the Slovenian artist and media culture-cultural studies professor Polona Tratnik in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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How to Take Back Our Freedom in the Surveillance Society, by Alan N. Shapiro

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Surveillance

It should have been clear a long time ago that the emerging omnipresence of information technologies would lead to an explosion of surveillance in all areas of our lives. We need to go beyond Foucault-, Orwell- and Huxley-inspired models of how contemporary quasi-totalitarian systems of social control work.
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“Die Software der Zukunft,” new book by Alan Shapiro

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Computer Science 2.0, Future Design

Mit seiner "Software der Zukunft" pladiert der Informatiker und Medientheoretiker Alan Shapiro für eine partizipatorisch realisierte Neuausrichtung der Informatik. Dies wäre eine Informatik der "rechten Gehirnhälfte", die zwar auf der bestehenden, technisch ausgerichteten Wissenschaft vom Computer aufbaut, sie aber näher an die Disziplinen Kunst, Soziologie, Philosophie und Kulturtheorie heranrückt.
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Natural Language Processing, by Matthieu Lion

September 3rd, 2014 in the categories: Offenbach Students: Artificial Intelligence Projects

My project consists of research into the area of Natural Language Processing, including developing in Java and the RebeccaAIML platform a conversational flow interaction between a human and a software.
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