Category: Quantum Physics Sociology

  • Jean Baudrillard and Albert Camus on the Simulacrum of Taking a Stance on War, by Alan N. Shapiro

    “Jean Baudrillard and Albert Camus on the Simulacrum of Taking a Stance on War” by Alan N. Shapiro (full text is at the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies) Unlike other thinkers such as Noam Chomsky or Chris Hedges (whose positions are highly valuable in their own right), Jean Baudrillard is not ‘against war’. Baudrillard’s position…

  • How can we redefine information in the age of social media?, by Alan N. Shapiro

    On January 24, 2012, I was a keynote speaker at the BOBCATSSS conference on Information Management of the organization of European university libraries in Amsterdam. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, BOBCATSSS 2012 was organised by students from three universities of applied sciences, namely Hogeschool van Amsterdam (NL), Hanze Hogeschool Groningen (NL), and Stuttgart…

  • Improving the Information Society Through Awareness of Languages, by Alan N. Shapiro

    Improving the Information Society Through Awareness of Languages, by Alan N. Shapiro

    I presented a paper at the ISEA2011 festival of new media, electronic and digital arts in Istanbul, Turkey on September 21, 2011. On a planetary scale, the quality of communication, work, cross-cultural empathy, scientific and business development, health care, and leisure-time experience in the information society has been limited by the specific way in which…

  • General Patton Memorial Museum

    General Patton Memorial Museum 62-510 Chiriaco Road, Chiriaco Summit, California 92201 “A Military History Museum With Exhibits from World War I through the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars And our Tank Yard with Armored Vehicles from World War II through Vietnam” In spite of the above self-description written by the museum itself, I felt that the…

  • Multimedia Real-Time Live In-Play Sports Gambling

    I am inside the cockpit with the race car driver. My money is riding with him. I have some action on Formula One. I have some action on a golf tournament. Fred Couples is my man. I’ve got 100 dollars on a horse named Willis to win. He looks poised for a 10-length victory. The…

  • Learning to Love Androids: The Wondrous World of the Universal Scholar Alan Shapiro, by Florian Fricke

    Learning to Love Androids: The Wondrous World of the Universal Scholar Alan Shapiro, by Florian Fricke

    Learning to Love Androids: The Wondrous World of the Universal Scholar Alan N. Shapiro by Florian Fricke translated from the German by Lenny “Nails” Dykstra Bayerischer Rundfunk Radio, ZÜNDFUNK Broadcast: June 13, 2010, 22:05 – 23:00 The American Alan N. Shapiro is a technologist and futurist, on the basis of philosophy and sociology. As a…

  • A Critique of the Idea of Neutral Language, by Marc Silver

    Arguing the Case: Language and Play in Argumentation by Marc Silver Over the past thirty years there has been an intense scrutiny brought to bear upon the ways in which various disciplines deploy rhetorical devices to “argue their case,” as well as to consolidate their identities and maintain them intact. In Arguing the Case: Language…

  • Europe at War in Serbia and Kosovo, by Alan N. Shapiro

    On March 24, 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization initiated a bombing campaign from 15,000 feet vectored towards designated targets inside the territory of Yugoslavia. NATO’s spokesmen stated that the systematic aerial assaults were a response to brutalities being carried out on the ground by Serb military and para-military forces against the ethnic Albanian majority.

  • Consumer Culture and Naming the Animals, by Alan N. Shapiro

    In his famous essay “Myth Today,” published in 1957, Roland Barthes added a second dimension to the semiotic analysis of Ferdinand de Saussure, to the insight of the Swiss linguist that language is a social institution. Barthes added a social theory of culture to the social theory of language.