Category: Thinkers
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Discover America und die Idee der Baudrillard-Company, von Alan N. Shapiro
aus dem Amerikanischen von Andrea Stock full text just published in the book: Caroline Heinrich (Hg.), Jean Baudrillard: Fest für einen Toten Ventil Verlag, 2015 Baudrillards Amerika ist – um es einmal vorsichtig auszudrücken – nicht wirklich gut angekommen. Die verärgerte Rezeption durch eine Fülle von Kritikern hat erheblich zur negativen Seite von Baudrillards Doppel-Reputation…
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Der Stellenwert von Simulationen im Berufsleben, von Melike Iskender
1. Einleitung XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx Technik und Medien sind heutzutage Bestandteil des alltäglichen Lebens. Einerseits machen sie das Leben des Menschen einfacher; andererseits üben sie einen großen Einfluss auf uns aus. Technik ist längt kein Instrument mehr, über das wir verfügen, um Dinge fertigzustellen; wie dies in früheren Zeiten der Fall war. Im Gegenteil, in unsererheutigen Gesellschaft…
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Reality and Simulation in “The Prisoner,” by Caroline Fuchs
Number 6 is being held hostage in “The Village” for only one reason: to answer the question why did he resign. But Number 6, who is a faithful servant to his former authorities and did not resign for personal gain – that is to say to sell the valuable information he has – but for…
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Time-Memory-Experience (part 3 of 4), by Anja Wiesinger
The Optical Unconscious in Benjamin and Krauss from the Time-Memory Experience project (this is part 3 of a 4-part essay) by Anja Wiesinger The Optical Unconscious in Walter Benjamin’s writing appears first in „A little history of photography“ (1931), which Benjamin wrote a few years prior to the famous Artwork essay. In the photography essay, Benjamin…
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The Car of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro and Alan Cholodenko
co-author: Alan Cholodenko In November 2008, Alan N. Shapiro was invited by Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany to speak about his ideas about “the car of the future.” He spoke in front of an audience of people from the Human-Machine Interface Dept. and and the Infotainment Dept. This text was written as an accompaniment to that…
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The Best of All Possible Worlds: Modal Metaphysics and Possibilia, by James Shapiro
A brilliant and highly productive intellectual whose work spanned over many fields—mathematics, geometry, physics, etc., in addition to his philosophical contributions—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz remains best known for his rather unique version of “theodicy.” This term refers to an argument defending the benevolence of God and His methods, despite the worldly suffering and injustice that has…
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On the trail of Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Žižek in the American Desert
OBJECTS IN THIS MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR Those of us who have gotten past knee-jerk and xenophobic reactions to his work, understand Baudrillard to be a unique thinker – perhaps one of the half-dozen greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. For us Baudrillard’s America is an important and misunderstood book – a milestone…
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Authentic Existence in Heidegger’s “Being and Time”
Authentic Existence in Heidegger’s “Being and Time”, by Alan N. Shapiro In his excellent essay on Heidegger’s Being and Time, which I have just published here at my website, my nephew James Shapiro argues (among other things) that Heidegger gives little content to or explanation of what he means by authentic being. Jamie said that…
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On Heidegger’s “Being and Time”, by James Shapiro
On Heidegger’s “Being and Time”, by James Shapiro Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time is a work primarily concerned with the explication and understanding of the specific brand of existence and consciousness that is unique to man—or perhaps stated more succinctly, what it means to be a human being. This unique human existence Heidegger calls Dasein,…
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Sartre and Derrida: The Promises of the Subject, by Christina Howells
Sartre and Derrida: The Promises of the Subject Chaque fois unique, la fin du monde by Christina Howells Christina Howells is Professor of French at Wadham College, Oxford University. She has published books on Sartre, on Derrida, and on French women philosophers. She teaches literary theory, French literature, and recent French thought. Professor Howell’s new…
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Claude Lefort, Political Philosopher, by Alan N. Shapiro
Politics as it is practiced in America is obsolete. It is a simulation of democracy. It seems to have very little to do with democracy any more. How do we get back to (or, more accurately, move forward to) being a real democracy? Here’s my answer: By understanding the lifework of Claude Lefort, the greatest…
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Baudrillard, Globalization and Terrorism, by Douglas Kellner
Baudrillard, Globalization and Terrorism: Some Comments on Recent Adventures of the Image and Spectacle on the Occasion of Baudrillard’s 75th Birthday Dr. Douglas Kellner (George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles) Read the complete text at the Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and…
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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. Als solcher…
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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. We begin with an announcement in French:…
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Baudrillard and Trek-nology (Or Everything I Know I Learned From Watching Star Trek and Reading Jean Baudrillard), by Alan N. Shapiro
Baudrillard and Trek-nology (Or Everything I Know I Learned From Watching Star Trek and Reading Jean Baudrillard)1 Alan N. Shapiro (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) We should be greatly mistaken were we to view science fiction as an escape from everyday reality: on the contrary, it is an extrapolation from the irrational tendencies of that reality…