Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

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

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Methodology – Thirty Minute Statement at my Ph.D. Oral Defense

July 31st, 2024 in the categories: Book Descriptions, Creative Coding, Future Design, Media in the Digital Society

I present a way for cultural studies and philosophy to play an important role in what the nascent Creative Coding movement can become. It is about Creative Coding, Phase Two. I lay out how poststructuralist theories of language can provide a basis for the project of transdisciplinary software coding.
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How to Regulate the Media when they are ubiquitous and have gone viral: from utopian science fiction to practical European policy

March 8th, 2021 in the categories: European Union, Media in the Digital Society

This is the text of the keynote speech that I gave at the European Union conference "Pluralism and Responsibility: Media in the Digital Society" in Berlin on July 7, 2020. I was invited to speak by Monika Grütters, the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.