Month: July 2010

  • The Technological Herbarium, by Gianna Maria Gatti

    Gianna Maria Gatti’s book The Technological Herbarium (subtitled: “Vegetable Nature and New Technologies in Art Between the Second and Third Millennia”) is a study of “interdisciplinary” works of art that exemplify the increasing importance of science and technology in artistic creation. Her analysis, however, goes beyond that of a journalistic or curatorial survey of artworks.

  • Journal Entry: The Void, by Mary Fox

    What follows is neither philosophical, nor academic. It is, however, both self-indulgent and self-referential, as a journal can only be. It presents no “truths” and it is peppered with inconsistencies and flaws, because I am.

  • Alan N. Shapiro interviewed by Gerry Ryan

    I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Gerry Ryan on April 30, 2010, Ireland’s premier radio and television broadcaster and interviewer. Gerry was a great communicator. Gerry was a huge Star Trek fan. On June 1, 2005, I was interviewed for 45 minutes by Gerry on the Gerry Ryan Show.

  • The Car of the Future, more sketches, by Nick Pugh

    All images © Copyright Nick Pugh and Alan N. Shapiro, 2010  

  • Baudrillard’s Second Life, by René Capovin

    Fashion in the modern sense presupposes the becoming-autonomous of interaction, and is linked, in particular, to the communications of the mass media. In a society differentiated by functions, in fact, there is no one class or group that can impose its own “taste.” Everyone must conform their own taste to the information of all others.”

  • Georges Bataille and Epistemology

    Bataille’s Theory of Religion and The Accursed Share have been read by generations of Marxists, deconstructionists, and Baudrillard the man himself in economic terms. But, in the current situation of virtuality, it is most interesting to read these texts from an epistemological point of view.