Month: December 2010
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Conference on Quantum Culture in Venice
After the conference on Digital Culture in Milan, I arrived in Venice. I took the Vaporetto number 2 towards my hotel. I meditated about how I have had enough of conferences about Digital Culture. During this Vaporetto ride, the answer dawns on me: we need to develop the paradigm of Quantum Culture.
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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.
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Baudrillard, Globalization and Terrorism, by Douglas Kellner
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and subsequent Terror War, Jean Baudrillard has written a series of reflections on the contemporary moment that have evoked the excitement and controversy of his earlier work. For many years, Baudrillard had complained that the contemporary era has been one of “weak events.”