Alan N. Shapiro, Visiting Professor in Transdisciplinary Design, Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, Germany

„Der Weltraum ist wie eine weiße Leinwand” “Outer space is a blank canvas” — Interview with Forty Two Magazine This is an excerpt from the complete interview. It can be found at Forty...

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This is the text of the speech that I gave at the Schaubühne theater in Berlin on 23. February 2020, at an event in the “Streitraum” series led by Carolin Emcke. I have slightly edited and e...

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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 Alan N. Shapiro This is the text of the keynote speech that I gav...

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An interview with Alan N. Shapiro by Axelle Stiefel August 2020 This interview was published in Volume 1, Issue 2 of Artist Network Theory. Info about Artist Network Theory AXELLE: We met in a me...

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Play Don’t Work The book that I have read about Marx that most inspired me was Marx’s Theory of Alienation by the Hungarian Marxist philosopher István Mészáros, published in 1970. Mészá...

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From mass advertising to personalized advertising: the Billboard Cage Project of Christos Voutichtis Alan N. Shapiro The billboard is like a theatrical stage. It is an exhibition space, a seducti...

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Jean Baudrillard and the Donald: Is Trump a Fascist or is He the Parody of Fascism? Alan N. Shapiro This is the text of my speech at the virtual conference “Trump, Television and the Media: Fro...

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Light-Writing from Las Vegas Alan N. Shapiro All photographs © 2017 Alan N. Shapiro This photo-essay was published in 2017 in the book “Nevertheless: 17 Manifestos AND Digital Culture” edite...

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How can we redirect ideas from the philosophy of science (which has focused in the past on physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, etc…) to interrogating computer science or what Herbert A. Sim...

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Friedrich Kittler was the founder of German media theory and media archaeology. I disagree with Kittler’s statement that there is no software and his belief that the numerical logic of the low-...

http://www.alan-shapiro.com/between-media-and-software/