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

Jean Baudrillard and Consumer Objects, by Alan N. Shapiro

Cultural Citizenship in Contemporary America, by Alan N. Shapiro

Reality and Simulation in “The Prisoner,” by Caroline Fuchs

A German Sociology Book on Baudrillard – Samuel Strehle, “Zur Aktualität von Jean Baudrillard”, by Alan N. Shapiro

Lecture-Performance in Amsterdam (Alan N. Shapiro and Anja Wiesinger)

Jean Baudrillard and America, by Alan N. Shapiro

Jean Baudrillard and Doomsday: On Louis Arnoux’s “Catastrophe Warning” Discourse, by Alan N. Shapiro

On the trail of Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Žižek in the American Desert

Whiskey Pete’s Casino at the California/Nevada Border

Albert Camus’ The Rebel and Jean Baudrillard’s The Perfect Crime

McLuhan and Baudrillard: Making Science Fiction a Lot More Real

Baudrillard, Globalization and Terrorism, by Douglas Kellner

Baudrillard und Trek-nologie, von Alan N. Shapiro

Beaubourg, Quai Branly, and the Simulacrum of Jean Baudrillard, by René Capovin

Baudrillard’s “Requiem for the Twin Towers”