Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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Technological Anarchism, by Alan N. Shapiro

June 28th, 2019 in the categories: Art and Economics, Ecology, Energy, and the Environment

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

August 17th, 2015 in the categories: Art and Economics

The blockchain technology will be worked up into new software applications, many of which will benefit artists and creators. These applications will help the growth of the “Internet of Creators.” Creators will be better positioned to capitalize on or monetarily convert their symbolic wealth.
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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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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.