Author: Alan N. Shapiro
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Comments About “Venice in Las Vegas”
Here I will post comments about my book “Venice in Las Vegas” as they come in.
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Review of My Book “Transdisciplinary Design”
By Giorgio Cipolletta. The review originally appeared at Noemalab.eu.
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Review of My Book “The Software of the Future”
By Florian Arnold. The review originally appeared in the Vilem Flusser Archive at the University of the Arts, Berlin.
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Film Adaptations of Albert Camus’ “The Stranger”
One of the great novels of the twentieth century is The Stranger by Albert Camus. François Ozon’s new film adaptation is playing in movie theaters. The Stranger has been adapted across different media by creators from Algeria, Turkey, Italy, Argentina, and France.
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Are We Living in a Technological or a Cultural Simulation? (and what to do about it)
While the technological simulation hypothesis, promoted by thinkers such as Nick Bostrom and Elon Musk, suggests that reality may be an artificial environment created by an advanced civilization, I argue that cultural simulation provides a more convincing explanation of present-day social life.
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Venice in Las Vegas
My memoir book “Venice in Las Vegas: An American and European Auto-Socio-Biography, 1960s to 1980s” has been published in the Counterpoints Studies in Criticality series, edited by Shirley Steinberg, of the Peter Lang Publishing House.