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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Twenty Basic Principles of a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro

October 13th, 2012 in Category: Ecology, Energy, and the Environment

In the third part of my lecture, I will now build on top of the ideas of Baudrillard and Gatti that I have presented, and I will start to conceptualize the essential elements of the proposed New Green Politics.
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Towards a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro

October 13th, 2012 in Category: Ecology, Energy, and the Environment

How can we develop an alternative to this worn-out discourse of 'catastrophe warning', how can we construct a new Green Discourse, a new Green Politics that might jump-start the ecology-enviromental movement into effective action?
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Jean Baudrillard and Doomsday: On Louis Arnoux’s “Catastrophe Warning” Discourse, by Alan N. Shapiro

August 25th, 2011 in Category: Ecology, Energy, and the Environment, Jean Baudrillard

After a summer break lasting the month of August, I now start the new academic and business year with this major critique of the work of Louis Arnoux.