Alan N. Shapiro

Alan N. Shapiro
Born (1956-04-23) 23 April 1956 (age 68)
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMIT
Cornell University
New York University
Known forChanged public perceptions of Star Trek, Changed public perceptions of Baudrillard, Introduced idea of Dialogical Artificial Intelligence
Scientific career
FieldsScience fiction studies, Media theory, Technological art, Artificial intelligence, Transdisciplinary design, posthumanism

Alan N. Shapiro (born 23 April 1956 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American science fiction and media theorist. He is a lecturer and essayist in the fields of science fiction studies, media theory, posthumanism, French philosophy, creative coding, technological art, sociology of culture, software theory, robotics, artificial intelligence, and futuristic and transdisciplinary design. Shapiro's book[1] and other published writings on Star Trek have contributed to a change in public perception about the importance of Star Trek for contemporary culture.[2][3][4] His published essays on Jean Baudrillard - especially in the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies[5][6][7][8][9][10] - have contributed to a change in public perception about the importance of Baudrillard's work for culture, philosophy, sociology, and design.

Shapiro has contributed many essays to the journal of technology and society NoemaLab — on technological art,[11] software theory,[12] Computer Science 2.0,[13] futuristic design,[14] the political philosophy of the information society,[15] and Baudrillard and the Situationists.[16]

  1. ^ Shapiro, Alan N. (2004). Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance. Berlin: AVINUS Press. ISBN 3-930064-16-2.
  2. ^ Alan Shapiro, Captain Kirk Was Never the Original Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, CTHEORY (June 1997)
  3. ^ Alan Shapiro, The Star Trekking of Physics Archived 2016-11-27 at the Wayback Machine, CTHEORY (October 1997)
  4. ^ Alan N. Shapiro, Data as Sherlock Holmes: Ship in a Bottle Archived 2012-09-09 at archive.today, Red Room (June 2010)
  5. ^ Alan N. Shapiro, Re-Discovering Baudreality in America Archived 2018-04-23 at the Wayback Machine, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (January 2009)
  6. ^ Alan N. Shapiro, Baudrillard and Trek-nology (Or Everything I Know I Learned From Watching Star Trek and Reading Jean Baudrillard) Archived 2018-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (July 2005)
  7. ^ Alan N. Shapiro, Cultural Citizenship In Contemporary America Archived 2018-04-23 at the Wayback Machine, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (January 2010)
  8. ^ Alan N. Shapiro, Jean Baudrillard and Albert Camus on the Simulacrum of Taking a Stance on War Archived 2017-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (May 2014)
  9. ^ Alan N. Shapiro, Baudrillard and Existentialism: Taking the Side of Objects Archived 2017-01-01 at the Wayback Machine, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (July 2016)
  10. ^ Alan N. Shapiro, Gerry Coulter, Sophie Calle and Baudrillard’s Pursuit in Venice, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (October 2018)
  11. ^ Alan N. Shapiro, Gianna Maria Gatti's The Technological Herbarium, NoemaLab.org (February 2009)
  12. ^ Alan N. Shapiro, Society of the Instance, NoemaLab.org (2001)
  13. ^ Alan N. Shapiro and Bernhard Angerer, The Paradigm of Object Spaces: Better Software is Coming, alan-shapiro.com (Feb 2013)
  14. ^ Alan N. Shapiro and Alan Cholodenko, Car of the Future[permanent dead link], NoemaLab.org (July 2009)
  15. ^ Alan N. Shapiro, Political Philosophy of the Information Society, NoemaLab.eu (September 2012)
  16. ^ Alan N. Shapiro, Baudrillard and the Situationists, NoemaLab.eu (September 2018)