Author: Alan N. Shapiro

  • Baudrillard und Trek-nologie, von Alan N. Shapiro

    Beginnen wir mit dem Ende der sechziger Jahre in New York, dem Ort meiner Kindheit. Als guter Jude sollte ich eine jüdische Erziehung bekommen. Stattdessen liebte ich Star Trek. Alles, was ich weiß, habe ich von Star Trek gelernt. Unter anderem auch, die Naturwissenschaften zu lieben. Das machte mich zu einem guten Amerikaner.

  • Star Trek: How the New Comes into the World

    Most scientists, academics, and journalists who write about Star Trek claim to be fans and lovers of the various Starfleet Captains and their crews. But their customary methodologies function to deny to Star Trek its true originality as the creator of a reality-shaping “science fiction” that formatively influences culture, ideas, technologies, and even “hard sciences.”

  • Star Trek: 20 Basic Principles

    Star Trek Basic Principle #1: Radical Uncertainty Captain’s Log, Supplemental: “We are seeing things that cannot possibly exist, yet they are undeniably real.” In its indeterminacy and paradox, the object discovers us. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle holds that the degrees of my knowing the position and speed of quantum particles are inversely proportional to each other.

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

    Although I am not a big Quentin Tarantino fan, I absolutely loved Inglourious Basterds. One of the things that I loved about it is that four languages – French, English, German, and Italian – all play important roles in the film. So now for some quadrophonic Baudrillard.

  • Die Bibliothek der Zukunft – The Library of the Future, von/by Alan N. Shapiro

    Presented at the Wikipedia Critical Point of View Conference in Leipzig, Germany, Sept. 26, 2010 Die Bibliothek der Zukunft – The Library of the Future in German and English At this conference, I was on a panel together with Sabria David. Sabria is an expert in value-oriented business communication and corporate brand development.

  • My Hometown is Roslyn, Long Island, New York

    In 1980, I sat inside my hometown library in the “haute bourgeoise” town of Roslyn and read all the books they had about the student-worker near-revolution in May-June 1968 in France: books like Alain Touraine’s The Movement of May and Alfred Willener’s The Action-Image of Society.