Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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Biosphere 2: The Artificial Paradise of Nature

July 31st, 2024 in the categories: Ecology, Energy, and the Environment

Biosphere 2, according to Baudrillard, is the desperate project of a desperate humanity faced with its own extinction, the obsessive mania to create an artificial paradise of so-called nature and so-called reality, given that both of those nostalgic referents have already disappeared.
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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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Twenty Basic Principles of a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro

October 13th, 2012 in the categories: Ecology, Energy, and the Environment

In the third part of my lecture, I will now build on top of the ideas of Baudrillard and Gatti that I have presented, and I will start to conceptualize the essential elements of the proposed New Green Politics.
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Towards a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro

October 13th, 2012 in the categories: Ecology, Energy, and the Environment

How can we develop an alternative to this worn-out discourse of 'catastrophe warning', how can we construct a new Green Discourse, a new Green Politics that might jump-start the ecology-enviromental movement into effective action?