Author: Alan N. Shapiro
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Orwell, Baudrillard and Trump, by Alan N. Shapiro
Trump makes statements which are not true, but which he claims to be true. His inauguration crowd on January 20th, 2017 was huge, he says. Millions of people voted illegally in the presidential election, especially in California and New Hampshire, he declares. President Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, Trump states.
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Blockchain Technology and Self-Driving Cars, by Alan N. Shapiro
Blockchain is a very interesting technology both because of its revolutionary computer science architecture and because of its possible future applications in business, commerce, culture, the arts, mobility, government, and social life.
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Baudrillard und Trump: Agonie des Realen, von Alan N. Shapiro
Sollen wir uns mit Orwells Medientheorie bescheiden oder der von Baudrillard? Oder brauchen wir eine neue Medientheorie? Trump behauptet Dinge, die nicht wahr sind, die er jedoch für wahr erklärt. Er sagt, die Menschenmenge am Tag seiner Amtseinführung am 20. Januar 2017 war gigantisch. Millionen Leute haben illegalerweise bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen abgestimmt, verkündet er.
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Baudrillard und Trump: Simulation und Objektorientierung, nicht wahr und falsch, von Alan N. Shapiro
All das mag tatächlich wahr sein, es hinterlässt jedoch nicht den Hauch eines Eindrucks bei seinen Anhängern. Überall in seinen Arbeiten kommentiert Baudrillard den Unterschied zwischen dem Diskurs der Kritischen Theorie (liberale Journalisten wie Sargent sind, was Trump betrifft, darin stecken geblieben) und dem, was er selbst als “fatale Theorie” bezeichnet.
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“More After More: Essays Commemorating the Five Hundreth Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia”, edited by Ksenia Olkusz, Michał Kłosiński, and Krzysztof M. Maj
The book “More After More. Essays Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia ” is the first volume of the new publishing series “Frontiers of Nowhere” designed by Facta Ficta Research Centre in Kraków (factaficta.org/en) to probe the boundaries of fictional world-building and contemporary narrative theories.
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Baudrillard and Trump: Simulation and Object-Orientation, Not True and False by Alan N. Shapiro
I feel very privileged that, in Volume Six, Number One (January 2009) of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (IJBS), my essay on Baudrillard’s America appears in tandem with Gerry Coulter’s essay on America. Gerry’s text is extremely helpful in thinking about the contemporary phenomenon of Donald John Trump.