Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist

Blog and text archive about media theory, science fiction theory, future design, social choreography, Computer Science 2.0, new media art, robots and androids, Star Trek, The Prisoner, Jean Baudrillard, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Marshall McLuhan

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Sartre and Derrida: The Promises of the Subject, by Christina Howells

May 25th, 2011 in Category: Jacques Derrida, Jean-Paul Sartre

The subject of Derrida’s relations with Sartre has preoccupied me for around twenty-five years, since I first discovered Derrida’s work in fact, in 1980, the year of Sartre’s death, and felt certain he owed an enormous amount to the patterns of thinking, if not necessarily the conclusions, of his philosophical predecessor.
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Impressionist Paintings by Florence Morrison, Installment 2

May 25th, 2011 in Category: Painting

Walk to Elysium (1963), Protected Walkway (1968), Connecting Fences (1960)
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From Las Vegas (NV) to the Cactus League (AZ)

May 20th, 2011 in Category: New American Studies, Photography

Leaving Las Vegas... Driving through the northern Arizona desert... To the Cactus League... In the Shadow of Jean Baudrillard and America... To arrive at nighttime March baseball in southern Arizona!
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Design for a Working Quantum Computer in Software

May 12th, 2011 in Category: Computer Science 2.0

A Quantum/Real World Software System with Similarity-Based Dynamic Objects