Author: Alan N. Shapiro

  • From Digital Culture to Quantum Culture, by Alan N. Shapiro

    In our everyday discourse and even in our academic discourse, we very often use the term Digital Culture. Digital Culture means technology everywhere. Technology is reshaping every aspect of human and social existence. Digital Culture is the information society and online life. Digital Culture is social media like Facebook and mobile communications like smartphones.

  • Jean Baudrillard and Albert Camus on the Simulacrum of Taking a Stance on War, by Alan N. Shapiro

    Unlike other thinkers such as Chomsky, Baudrillard is not ‘against war’. Baudrillard’s position is rather that of being ‘neither for nor against’ contemporary hyper-real mediatized wars, and seeing the imperative of choosing whether one is ‘for’ or ‘against’ war as being something of a forced and imposed simulacrum.

  • Ruben Talberg‘s volte-face paintings “Arcanum”, by Alan N. Shapiro

    An artwork from Ruben Talberg’s series “Arcanum” suggests a multi-nodal secret that can only become known to the initiated few. The work hints at presenting the key to solving a mystery, providing an answer to a riddle that is accessible via magic, mysticism and a very personalized meditation practice filtered through classical spiritual traditions.

  • Star Trek: Technologien des Verschwindens, von Alan N. Shapiro

    Star Trek is die verbreiteste “Ikone” der technologischen Kultur. Zu den größten Fans gehören Physiker, Ingenieure, Informatiker, Grafikkünstler und Medienschaffende. Doch die ursprüngliche Kreativät von Star Trek wird von der Star Trek-Industrie neutralisiert.

  • Towards the Internet of Creators, by Alan N. Shapiro

    We don’t yet have an Internet where the creator of a photograph, a video, a piece of music, a segment of software code, a digital artwork, a journalistic piece, or a writerly composition is identified by a special authentication signature or a certificate of ownership.

  • Transdisciplinary Code and Objects, by Alan N. Shapiro

    In Impossible Exchange, Baudrillard separates his system of thought from ‘neo-Marxist critical theory’, which, on the whole, is also a subject-centered perspective (although one could definitely find an ‘object-centered perspective’ in the original texts of ‘Frankfurt School’ thinkers like T.W. Adorno).